directed by: Ridley Scott
written by: Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples + Philip K. Dick (book)
starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
comment: 13th October, 2017
The emotional strain of this film is bafflingly baffling to me. If I were to describe the subject matter, it would sound like all the things I like: Sci-fi about the end of the world (humanity), love found at unexpected places, room filled with terrifying dolls, emptied narration, a robot owl, crying Rutger Hauer, I mean, a lot of theoretical fun. But when I actually watch it, none of that makes actuall sense to me. I don't know what I'm supposed to find enjoyable about that or if it's expected of me to root for some of those bastards? Deckard seems like a simple minded rapist and other characters just sit around like those terrifying dolls, nobody seems real and most of the encounters feel like a rehersed act for the camera, not like an inevitable situation pushed by a well-built fictional world.
Instead of tears vanishing in rain I am left with questions like how did the gun-toting replicant got out of a federal building full of with agents? How can the true origin of a manufactured mechanical being only be determined by psychoanalysis? If the Earth is indeed a place where only the sick and poor who cannot afford a relocation to a "brave new world" stay, why are the replicants forbidden to roam around? And not that I really care about answers to these questions. I don't. And the final and maybe the biggest disappointment was that the highly praised soundtrack was a letdown for me as well.
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