Blade Runner

Director: Ridley Scott.

Publisher: Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2007.

Rick Deckard, the titular ‘Blade Runner’, would give Philip Marlowe a run for his money. Living in a neon-nightmare of Los Angeles in ‘2019’, there’s no time for feelings and emotions. Deckard has a job to do, hunt down AWOL Replicants and retire them, and he’ll do it, until his pesky heart gets in the way.

‘Blade Runner’ is a highly regarded film that mixes hard-boiled detective/noir elements with hard science fiction. Deckard is an operative of the LAPD in the far-flung future of ‘2019’, tasked with hunting down four Replicants, genetically modified artificial humans, that have made a bloody escape from their indentured servitude. This hunt will be his hardest as coming up against the Replicant, Roy Batty, and his family, will make Deckard question who is the more human of the two.

Directed by Ridley Scott, the director of ‘Alien’ and ‘Gladiator’, this movie is still a sight to behold almost 40 years after its release. Mixing the visual elements of film noir, the tropes of hard-boiled detective fiction and the often-mind-bending concepts of science fiction, ‘Blade Runner’ is sure to grip you. And if it does, follow it up with the sequel ‘Blade Runner: 2049’. If you’re looking for the inspiration for the movie, look for Philip K Dick’s ‘Do androids dream of electric sheep?’

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