Blade Runner a Dystopian Far Cry

Blade Runner is a 1982 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The script was written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and is a loose adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. In the nearly 25 years since its original release, Blade Runner has become one of the most discussed, debated, and influential science fiction movies. These days, it's almost impossible to find a gritty science fiction motion picture that doesn't owe at least a small debt to Blade Runner's visual style.

Set in a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, the story depicts a future in which bioengineered androids known as replicants are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies. When a renegade group of replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out LA cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly accepts one last assignment to hunt them down. During his investigations, Deckard meets Rachael (Young), an advanced replicant who causes him to question his mission. 

This neo-noir masterpiece delves deep into the questions of existence, mortality and the perception of memories and emotions which established humanities in the sacred tree of evolution.it depicts a dystopian earth devoid of biogenerics and a devastated environment, which leads to a torrential rain and rotten structures on earth. 

Mr. Scott questioned the quintessential properties which define humanity, and the ambiguous perception of humans and replicants based on these characteristics. The cathartic interrogation of mortality both in humans and replicants and the purpose of existence with profound memories were projected brilliantly by surrealistic imageries and noir dystopian production design. The ingenious Cinematography and surrealistic vivid visual style of this movie invoked an atmosphere of paradox and paranoia, which hung throughout the narrative. 

This sci-fi noir became a magnum-opus in its genre and remained one of the most articulate works of Mr. Scott’s and Harrison Ford.  The cast especially Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer as Roy batty eloquently and exceptionally projected the mood and emotions of a dilemma, fear, and uncertainty which propelled the narrative further in the dark alley. 

The music composed by Vangelis with its ominous dark undertones procreates the mystery and paranoia for the audience. An aura of paranoia suffuses the film: corporate power looms large; the police seem omnipresent; vehicle and warning lights probe into buildings, and the consequences of huge biomedical power over the individual are explored – especially the consequences for replicants of their implanted memories. Control over the environment is depicted as taking place on a vast scale, hand in hand with the absence of any natural life, with artificial animals substituting for their extinct predecessors. Rain is a recurring theme throughout the movie and subject the theme of decay and despair and ultimately leading to destitute humans devoid of love. 

At the final frontier of this movie the monologue by Roy Batty, a Nexus 6 replicant encapsulated the brief idea behind this movie, at his final moments he wondered how memories defined him and how these memories cascaded into bits and pieces of moments and the frailty of those instances in reference to the cosmological time. How it would burst like a bubble amid a multitude of bubbles in the vast ocean. It scrutinized the meaning of life and the finality of death. A visually remarkable, achingly human sci-fi masterpiece and a harbinger of cyberpunk concept, it’s an essential watch for the sake of aesthetics and visual style. 

This oppressive backdrop explains the frequently referenced migration of humans to extraterrestrial ("off-world") colonies. The dystopian themes explored in Blade Runner are an early example of cyberpunk concepts expanding into film. Eyes are a recurring motif, as are manipulated images, calling reality into question, and our ability to accurately perceive and remember it. These thematic elements provide an atmosphere of uncertainty for Blade Runner's central theme of examining humanity. In order to discover replicants, an empathy test is used, with a number of its questions focused on the treatment of animals – seemingly an essential indicator of someone's "humanity". 

The replicants appear to show compassion and concern for one another and are juxtaposed against human characters who lack empathy while the mass of humanity on the streets is cold and impersonal. The film goes so far as to put in doubt whether Deckard is human, and forces the audience to re-evaluate what it means to be human. Misunderstood when it first hit theaters, the influence of Ridley Scott's mysterious, neo-noir Blade Runner has deepened with time.."

If you haven't watched this movie, I highly recommend it. I am going with 8.4/10 for this American neo-noir science fiction film