The future is dark

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 2005)

The comment made by police captain Bryant, "You're either cops, or little people," is significant in that it highlights the mindset of powerful and elite people to view the masses as worth only what can be taken from them or what they can be forced to do. Although Blade Runner is set in futuristic Los Angeles, it may accurately represent the future of a world with two classes--those who are rich, and those who are slaves. Even now the transition from worker to slave is well under way in the United States, where it will ultimately be perfected. Better to be a machine of the future and live in fear than a human. Blade Runner welcomes us to the future and the New World Order, where doves will never be released.