The purpose of this blog is to express my ideas about a verity of different films and how digital technology has effected film making within the last forty years

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Blade Runner


Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as 'replicants'. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man's obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired
Blade Runner this film bring a few different questions to mind, mainly dealing with Artifical Intelligence and the idea of immortality. The Replicants are the most advance A.I. that has ever been created they look and act like humans. Even when they are killed blood and gore come out instead of wires and batter acid. Blade Runner bring to mind at what point does the A.I. become an individual with all of the same rights as a human. Also by giving these replicants memories does this only add to their individuality.(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/plotsummary)

The idea of immortality is also brought into this film. By having the replicants with memories it brings to question how long would it be until a human placed all of their memories into a replicants body. Is this the next evolution of humanity? To become binded with technology into the sense we will be unable to live without it. Is this the solution to all of the problems with A.I.? Placing all of our memories and thought into a body that is artificial? By doing this do we really answer our question concerning A.I. Man is jealous of A.I. or a cyborg, it will never die as long as its parts are replaced and it is serviced.

One thing that I didnt get within the film was all of the Asian culture within L.A. granted I could see the increase of Asian culture on the west coast but to the point where the majority of the city,we see, is Asian? I dont understand what the directer was going for here, especially for the year being 2019. I could see the shock value in it. Look how crazy looking L.A. is in the future it has all become as though it was a chinatown section within a city. Although this is a problem I have with the film it does not take away from the rest of the film and how great it truly is.

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