Director Ridley Scott, noted for his elaborate production design on 'Alien',
again brings to the screen a brilliantly conceived view of the future.
Based on Philip K. Dick's story,
'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?',
the film stars Harrison Ford as Deckard,
a dogeared cop recently retired from his position as a 'blade runner,
a sort of officially authorised bounty hunter.
Thanks to some amazing special effects, 'Blade Runner'
is a mesmerising peek into the near future.
Set in a horribly polluted Los Angeles teeming with street urchins,
the story explores Ridley Scott's neon nightmare vision of things to come.
As a 'blade runner', Deckard must hunt down androids called 'replicants',
genetically-pioneered robots with human appearance and superhuman abilities
who have been designed to explore other worlds and build colonies in space.
A group of replicants have rebelled against their four-year
lifespan and fled to Earth to find the key to immortality.
Deckard's mission is to hunt the escapees down.
This is a hugely influential movie which time has neither dimmed nor diluted.
In the war between human and non-human, both sides pose the same global questions;
who am I, where am I going, how long have I got to live? In fact,
Ridley Scott's vision looks as fresh today as it did in 1982.
The foundation of this is the film's look, its atmosphere and attention to detail;
this is where the film scores so highly.
Quite simply Blade Runner is one of the most stunning examples of pure cinema ever made.
If you haven't seen it yet, you just don't know what you've been missing.
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