'Blade Runner' = Dystopian Future at its most Picturesque and Prescient?

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2019)

Philip K. Dick was probably the most Wildly imaginative & enigmatically-Creative (some might aptly say 'warped' - but in the absolute Best sense of that word of course) Science Fiction/ Speculative Fiction writer ever to grace our humble little Planet Earth! And Ridley Scott is one of the finest Cinematic Artists around (i.e. truly bringing to vital & vibrant artistic 'Life' those elusive but fascinating pictures-words/ sights & sounds!)
Put these two uniquely exemplary Artists together and you get an authentically superlative (and even mind-blowing) result like the original 'Blade Runner' (first released circa 1982 - but still more than slightly ahead of our Time, circa2019!)
Blade Runner's reputation has been significantly enhanced in the years after its initial Box office run in 1982 - initially, audiences were probably expecting (from a SciFi film with a futuristic setting) either the exhilarating sense of wonderment of Star Wars or forward-looking optimism inherent to Star Trek - or perhaps the futuristic terror of 'Alien' but instead they got a complex/multi-faceted and 'realistic' scenario of a possible near-future full of moral ambiguities = presenting many more questions than answers, and a genuinely 'uneasy' feeling about possible things to come (i.e. perhaps not the bright future we were all hoping for?)
But that uneasy/ tenuous atmosphere is exactly where this film generates its real power = this is based on Philip K. Dick after all, and his futures are filled with paranoid (or at least uncertain-enigmatic/ constantly shape-shifting) visions in which things are almost always Not what they first appear to be - and where concepts like 'good & evil' and even our individual identities become irrelevant or interchangeable.
Ridley Scott perfectly conceptualizes the Dystopian ambiguity inherent to P.K.Dick - and considerably broadens the visual Scope of the original source-book 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' ==> by spectacularly re-imagining/ updating Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' inspired City-scapes, although in much darker shades (and even enhancing said scenery with more than a bit of spectacular Japanese-Asian flair & futuristically eye-popping aesthetics!)
In any event, Blade Runner does what Speculative Fiction has always done Best = force us to think about our possible futures and contemplate the true meaning of 'identity' 'empathy' and even 'humanity' = not bad for a Movie classified in the humble little 'genre' of futuristic film noir.