SPOILER ALERT If you're unfamiliar with this movie and might wish to view it, this post contains SPOILERS. This is a favorite film of mine. Back in the 1980s, it was (to me - a teenager) thrilling and uniquely strange. The word "dystopian" wasn't in vogue yet, that I recall. In 2021, this film is now prescient. 1. The film opens focusing on a blue eye in which we see reflected the night lights of a vast industrial-like city complex, and a huge billowing orange flame. 2. Deckard represents men of today who are beaten down, tired, want to be left alone to enjoy what bits of life they can in increasing chaos, violence, and uncertainty. He only rises to fend off a threat when forced to. He and the world are mutually unfriendly. 3. Rachael represents women of today who are glamorous, a picture of smart femininity, poised, sophisticated ... but who are cold and calculating. Rachael is a robot ("Replicant") for people unfamiliar with the story; thus (at least according to the 1982 storyline) she cannot reproduce. 4. Deckard falls in love with Rachael. Why her? Why not a biological woman? 5. J.F. Sebastian is a man-child savant. He lives alone, tinkering with high-tech toys. His naivete attracts dangerous Replicants, one of whom we're to surmise kills him. 6. Dr. Eldon Tyrell "was the founder and corporate head of the Tyrell Corporation. He and his company were responsible for the design, manufacturing, and selling of humanoid slaves called replicants." Direct quote from https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Eldon_Tyrell. Dr. Tyrell is killed by a vengeful Replicant who doesn't want to die, whose life-enabling system has a set amount of time which cannot be extended. 7. Roy Batty is a Replicant who has fallen in love with life, who cherishes having witnessed marvels, who wants his life extended. He dies sadly with these words: I see 2021 in this film. Totally.
I remember this film very well and yes it is very disturbing and prescient. It presents a dark soulless loveless world that is seemingly always raining. Darkness and rain. (Like the place CS Lewis describes in The Great Divorce.)
One of the most brilliant films ever made. And we are getting closer to living in that world by reigning in the Great reset.
