Gilgamesh from 1982

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2001)

I've seen over 30,000 movies and this one is the best i've ever seen. I love this movie. It is perfect as a whole and in every single detail as well. Very little compromises were made with the audience and none relating to the story and its development.
Roy Batty [Ruger Hauer] completly takes over the movie from the first appearance on screen, and you'd think it is a story about him actually, but it is the story of all of us and Roy is just like one of us only to the tenth in everything, and this way every problem that we live our lives, often not even avare of it, is clearly depicted on him and haunts him like hounds from hell. His emotions and his problems are just like Deckard's only it shows more on him.
Roy struggles troughout the movie with the ideals of Gilgames, the oldest ideals known to mankind, and along the way he raises the questions that will have weight on human existance only now 20 years after the movie has been made: how much of the man do you need to make in some genetic engineering lab to OWN its soul, and have the right to manipulate it or sell it; even to decide who will live and love and who will not?
All these both little and big questions it raises trough the conflict between the ordinary people and what appears at first sight to be the uber-man lead us the full sircle to the knowledge that Martin Luter King was in fact right when he stated that "...all men are created equal...", and today, with knowledge of genetics reaching the critical mass this movie teaches us that this apply not only to the ones born natural way but to all of us including those that will emerge from labs or latter possibly even factories.
To my belief the importance of these questions must have been the lifeforce that pulled trough this immensly complicated film that is perfect in every little detail.
Those that do not understand the basics of genetics will probably have problems to follow the story and its hidden goals.
16.12.2001