With forty years of being released, bladerunner by Ridley Scott is a piece that summarizes the transcendental opinions and obsessions of the human being about existence. Further, the persistence of memory, human identity and how the philosophical perception about the nature of reality is related to technology. Converted into a cult classic, it is the reflection of a type of cinema that raises substantial questions about the individual. But beyond that, it’s also a journey through the idea of the value of science, the human mind and all the little links that unite into something higher and more powerful.
The film, in fact, is a confluence of a strange series of events that seemed to come together to create an unlikely classic. At first, Scott wasn’t too keen on shooting a movie that would in all likelihood end up pigeonholing his work into a single genre.
After the resounding critical and box office success of Alien, the Eighth passenger, the director wished to advance in new subjects. However, Hampton Fancher, a very young screenwriter who managed to condense the Philip K. Dick universe into a solid cinematic plot, convinced him. “I chased him to the point of exhaustion, I insisted on him in every way I knew how. On one occasion he told me that he had agreed to direct more out of boredom than interest”, Fancher told Variety.
From the collaboration of an expert director in science fiction and a writer who captured collective obsessions, the film became a complex project. Blade Runner obtained a magnificent visual capacity to surprise and move. Above all, a bitter perception of reality that makes the film an intimate work, although it may not seem so.
bladerunner it is an allegation about the fragility of human nature. A corrosive and cruel. The argument encompasses great unanswered philosophical questions about man’s responsibility for what he believes or rather, what he imagines. The premise is profound despite him, epic without his intention, and ultimately transcendent by necessity. A production that summarized the visions of science fiction of the time with a new complexity, with a dystopian vision that seemed to reconstruct the genre.
Blade Runner and awareness of collective failure
Until then, science fiction films were intended to amuse, warn or terrify. Shortly after becoming an allegory of something deeper and more disturbing. Specifically, the vision of what awaited man decades away. The future had been imagined as clean, exact, neat. That was at least the vision of Stanley Kubrick, who had revolutionized the genre years before with his impeccable 2001: A Space Odyssey. The contrasts with bladerunner They couldn’t be more noticeable. While Kubrick revels in the impossible neatness of technology, Scott takes it on as gray and dirty, a notoriously tarnished and decadent universe.
Responsible for aesthetics bladerunner is designer and illustrator Syd Mead. The artist gave the atmosphere of the film a dilapidated vision of the future. With its spaces full of contrasts of light and shadow, the city of Los Angeles of 2019 is definitely Noir. bladerunner a dystopia with a marked sorrowful personality. Halfway between a technological paradise and a claustrophobic vision of the loss of humanity of urban spaces.
bladerunner it also shows the future in the way spaces and places influence the society that inhabits them. The towering buildings separate the hypertechnified world from the stress of the street. From the insistent feeling that the whole world seems about to collapse or, in the best of cases, barely survive an imminent debacle. The film is a succession of images about the inevitable. A strange and deep collective suffering linked to the loss of hope in the future.
Scott, who pondered similar issues in Alien, found in bladerunner a way of capturing the existential anguish of a generation in symbols. The human beings in the film are violent, ruthless and arrogant.. They inhabit a world amidst elongated shadowy shapes in which they aspire to nothing but control. Or at least, the film emphasizes that single motivation while slipping into questions that no one answers. Androids move among human beings, their lives fleeting and fragmented to pieces. About to explode in fear or in any case, rebellion. Between both things, bladerunner it shows their pains, fears and falls in a technological hell of singular beauty.
The tears in the rain and other pains
In bladerunnerthe replicants — created in the image and likeness of the human — perpetuate the virtues and pains of the time. They cry, suffer and rebel. Everything, in the midst of a condition about their existence that opposes the violent demands of a society that cruelly excludes them. Paradox created a whole subgenre of film versions of a sense of tragic dystopia. For Scott, the future was, in essence, the revolt of the emotions of artificial beings against human rule. An idea so disconcerting that it is still novel today.
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bladerunner amazed by its mature approaches, but specifically its status as a unique work that delves into complex issues, from subtlety. With cities where it never stops raining and androids in awe of the beauty of the universe, Scott’s world doesn’t just show the future. Also, the nuances of a careful inquiry into the nature of man as creator. Despot, violent and in the end falliblein the midst of creatures that surpass him in daring and determination.