Red Eye

Rating: Null/10 (12 May 2002)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Blade Runner is indeed a masterpiece, those who don't like to think and dissect films and would just rather sit back and be passivley entertained are never going to get it. Don't get me wrong I love "Popcorn" movies as well as the next guy but man does not live by popcorn alone. Most movies, to use anologies found in the literary world, are akin to pulp novellas, comic books, or just basic fiction, however some movies like some literary works transcend the boundaries of conventionality to a significant enough level of greatness so as to achieve iconic status. These works seem to breathe, live and pulse with a life all their own and they often give no quarter, the viewer/reader must work and read between the lines to gleem the full impact of what is intended, for the artist to plainly state what he/she is trying to say would detract from the overall beauty of the entire work. >>>>Spoiler>>>>> as an example look at one of the last scenes. You don't have to hear Deckard's voice telling you that he beilieves Roy saved him because in his last moment of life, life must have become precious to him, the act itself finaly makes obvious that Roy was never really a simple minded cold blooded killer, he killed only to escape, and then like man, destroy his own creator(s) (I could go on about that but then I'd have to analyze everything and there is just too much to this film to do that at one sitting),once Roy realised death was iminent and nothing further could be gained he allowed his more humane side to do the right thing and in the act possibly transform the real cold blooded killer (Deckard) into a humane being himself. The entire film is loaded to the gils with material such as this. You give them eyes but they cannot see>>> speaking of eyes>>> At certain points in the film every thing identified as a replicant has red eye, I never noticed this because I had always seen it on vhs and it was not always apparant. Then I saw it on the big screen and thought how could such a visual artist and perfectionist like Scott allow that to happen? Then I caught on that it was only replicants. I knew that there was speculation that Deckard himself may be a replicant and there they were in one of the scenes in his apartment:Deckard's Red Eyes although for Harrison Ford the effect was much more subtle but it was still unmistakable. Added to the other evidence, there is no mistaking it, Deckard is a replicant which leads to more thoughtful speculation. Don't say this film sucks just because you don't get it, perhaps you'd be happier watching something else where you can sit, in the words of Frank Zappa in Po'jama people, with "cozy little footies on your mind"