Mesmerising-teleports viewer into a bleak yet opiod future.

Rating: 10/10 (11 December 2001)

When Philip.K.Dick wrote the original book'Do android..'it was his own incomparable musings of a very personal reflection about the future-and like his other works took abysmal study to let the essence and gravity of what he wrote percolate.
The movie 'Blade Runner'(though it was much modified from the original book)achieved the effect in one smooth single stroke.Right from the beginning with those dark blinking 2019 LA highrises and the stealthy hovercrafts snaking through luminous air alleys with a backdrop of that Japanese lady in the glow mural-everything created the Atmosphere made more powerful with Vangelis's haunting scores.Reflecting back about it the most powerful aspect of the movie was the ambience-the shades of light and darkness that Ridley Scott conveyed with the smooth solution of Ford's Deckard,Sean's Rachel,Pris,and the powerful Rutger Hauer himself and that old Sushi smoky marketplace-and the fight on the rooftop-it was a struggle between man and his alter-ego;heartbreaking yet illuminating.I dont think BR would have been better if it followed Dick's original,it was best.
It still evokes an opium dream after no matter how many times I see it.
I am waiting for 2019..
**another movie which evoked strong emotional turbulence was Clarke's-2001,A Space Odyssey.**