Blade Runner

Send us Fan MailWhat unfolded was a nightmarish world of gas explosions and eruptions, darkness stabbed by beams of light, flying cars, omnipresent rain on the ground, cops, magnificent buildings, garbage and hovels. The quirky and great minds of Phillip K. Dick and Ridley Scott had flung me into a world far in the future (Ha! LA in 2019 to be exact) and then caused me to question society, religion, race, slavery, the forward progress of humans, advertising and marketing, human relationships, all in 117 minutes (BTW, everything I’m talking about refers to Blade Runner: The Final Cut, as this was the version that Scott ultimately approved). At the time, I thought it was an amazing sci-fi tale and was more taken by the visuals than the story and lessons therein. I had no concept of film noir at that point, but now I think of Blade Runner as future noir --- the noir sensibilities of the 40s and 50s launched into a world almost (and now, in fact) 100 years later. Website and blog: www.thosewonderfulpeople.comBluesky: @wonderfulpeople.bsky.social