| Cyberpunk High Point |
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| written by jpceja |
September 3, 2003 - 5:04 PM PDT |
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6 out of 9 members found this review helpful
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These cyberpunk movies are so fleeting yet sexy, so bleak yet alluring, so discomforting yet liberating. It's no coincidence that the production design of Blade Runner, like other films of its dystopic genre, use constant rain and minimal light: that's the allure, the excitement of a passing storm, a hellish ghetto, an incomprehensible and malignant bureaucracy.
In exchange for their services as destabilizers of life, these forces demand a complete servitude, a slavery, to self-destruction; this in turn spurs the promise of rebellion, meaning either death at the hands of the system or new life within a sub-cluster of like-minded humans, who are trying to destroy that which they themselves created just by being humans (or humanlike robots). Thus films of the cyberpunk genre present the viewer an ultimate vision of corporate postmodernity, that is, deep, deep uncertainty at the hands of tech, since eventually the 'allure' of the ultra-state rears its head and a point of maximum confusion is reached. The rainy day gets tiresome.
Blade Runner, like most all cyberpunk films, is deeply individualistic instead of being humanistic: It admits a larger defeat at the hand of all-powerful institutions while allowing for the irony that these institutions do not have exclusive access to this 'all-power', which is subverted by rogues of the state for the purpose of establishing a 'counter-state' that requires only one individual to exist.
It's the ultimate sovereignty of the indiviudal. |
| philip k. dick and the wonders of rutger hauer |
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| written by psychodrama311 |
June 9, 2003 - 12:20 AM PDT |
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8 out of 10 members found this review helpful
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| from the beginning to the end.. blade runner is a beautiful display of a great visual director. with a script adapted from the aforementioned philip k. dick's novel "do androids dream of electric sheep". and help from a great acting performance from harrison ford and rutger hauer. ridley scott spins a tale that in it's tyme was ahead of it. a great use of color. and a great way of filming.. a great movie all around.. |
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