No longer able to suspend disbelief

Rating: 7/10 (5 May 2019)

In 1982, Disney's "futuristic" park, EPCOT, opened, Time Magazine's Man of the Year was THE COMPUTER, and personal technology is starting to advance. On the cusp of the digital age, Blade Runner was released in that same year. Blade Runner takes place in 2019, making it an interpretation of the oncoming future, a result of the advancements of technology beginning to take place at the time the film was released. When released the film entertained not just through the action and plot line, but the fact that it legitimately could be foreshadowing the true future.
Today in 2019, Blade Runner is unable to captivate audiences in the same way because how the world is portrayed in the year 2019 in the film is not at all how the world is 2019. The film is dark nearly the entire time which serves its purpose well of creating an ominous and dark feeling about the future throughout the film, however all of those alive today know that the sun is not blacked out day and night by industrialization. This movie said to take place only 37 years after its release, was doomed from the beginning to lose its power of suspending disbelief in its audiences.
Blade Runner's plot can be summed up into one sentence: Deckard is faced with killing the person he loves while he tries to stay alive himself. The concept of this movie is incredibly interesting and thought provoking in the sense that predicts such a dire future, however, the resolution of the film is completely focused on Deckard getting to be with the woman he loves. When this resolution happens, it suddenly makes the thought-provoking parts of the movie seem less interesting.
Additionally, in today's world, most are horribly desentized to violence and other things that in 1982 were considered shocking (i.e. nakedness in film), making the parts of Blade Runner that would have originally been controversial and eye-grabbing, uninteresting. In 1982, Blade Runner was an amazing futuristic movie, but today it is hard to stay focused on for a general audience.