my favorite movie ever

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2008)

I'm only not awarding a 10 because, even though it's impossible to create the same idea without it, I can't bring myself to hear a character's thoughts... narrators just freak me out... that's just me.
However, what is most intriguing to me is that this movie has always been my favorite ever since i saw it for the first time when I wasn't 10 yet. Why is this? I've no idea. I'm pretty sure I couldn't grasp the depth of it then! Truth is, 3 or 4 years later I found the book Blade Runner 2 in a fair and devoured it! And that was when I really started to get the point. A short time later I heard a replay was due on TV and I was sooooo thrilled! I could barely remember the movie and there I was, happy as a baby boy with a new toy ferrari! I loved the melancholy, the chilly atmosphere, the creepiness of that very down-to-earth future prospect. The contrast of the feverish will to stay alive of the replicants to everything else... I really can't begin to describe all that drew me to the movie. Another 10 years or more and I saw the movie again, grasping even more of it's content. And i still love it. However, some of the magic is gone, because now I can understand it all.
So no, you don't have to be a thinking viewer to appreciate this movie. you simply have to be alive.