Insight to the future

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 1998)

Millions of people have seen BladeRunner and all have mixed feelings about it. Classic or FX mayhem? Some critics tore it to shreds some lifted it up to God and said, " Look, Ridley made you a gift!".
After watching BladeRunner too many times to remember through a love of the movie I have also studied it indepth for a college class, which opened up BladeRunner to me than ever before. It has underlying meanings in it even if Ridley Scott did not put them there intentionally they are there. It brings moral questions of can life be ended even if it was man made? These are questions that are irrelevant to us now concerning synthetic humans but BladeRunner gives us insight to what may come of our world, it shows a bleak and dark world covered in mist, all created by visualist Miede, combined with incredible music by Vangelis, together they combine to show us a world that does not seem too flavorful. The people that are left on the BladeRunners world are the outcasts, people who are forbidden or cannot afford to go "Off World". In the novel by the great Philip K Dick these people are called Chickenheads. People aimlesly walking around with no real purpose anymore.
The performances in BladeRunner are excellent, even though there was little friendship between some of the actors and to the director none of it shows on the screen. For example, Harrison Ford and Sean Young detest each other in life but on screen they have a great chemistry as star crossed lovers. Ford didn`t completely get along with Scott Either. And still to this day Ford says that this was never his best work but enjoyed it none the less. Possibly this is Rutget Hauers best performance as to date, it took him less than 1 minute to be directly cast as Roy Batty as he walked into interview room clad in a leather coat and ready bleached blond hair.
If you have never seen this movie before you must, but maybe for the less enthusiatic Sci-Fi watcher the general release version would be better with the voice over helping to explain the plot, but for the experienced and open minded watcher should watch the directors cut, the letterbox edition is beautiful and shows exactly how Scott wanted you to see it. In my eyes it is a true classic, but judge for yourself, and wonder if the haunting world of the BladeRunner is the future of our world. And for the watchers of the Directors Cut... Is Deckard really a Replicant?