a powerful positive message

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 1999)

I like it when an artist has enough skill, knowledge and power to create a world. A world that is connected with that of ours by occasional worm-hole links, but otherwise is fully independent - with its own history, logic, technology, psychology, ethics, and esthetics, all described in minute details. Borges, Dick and Lem come to the mind as examples... and now, Ridley Scott.
Despite the outlandishness of the Blade Runner's world, there is one very strong link that connects it to our world, and it is its humanity. With all its violence and horror, the end of the film transmits a powerful positive message: we only can attain freedom through compassion and understanding.
Together with 2001:Space Odyssey, I consider this THE best science-fiction film and one of the best films, period.