Blade Runner Analysis

Blade Runner Analysis

Blade Runner
Blade Runner illustrates the hunger of mankind to defy the boundaries of humane principle and concepts of the natural environment. The film ironically depicts the genetically engineered replicants with more humanity and emotions than biological humans themselves. Blade Runner filmed in 1982 at a time of consumerism, flux of migration and global de-stabilisation, discontent and mutiny was a prime problem in society. Scott further ellaborates this idea of a sociocultural world, whereby lack of responsibility has resulted in the economic rationalism and consumerism phenomena. It is a monstrous, malformed world filled with fires and acid rain, constructed with dehumanised, sterile buildings. Habitants of the streets appear to lack any sort of connection or community with one another; even all animals have become almost extinct as a result of selfishness of humanity. The setting of environmental catastrophe and urban overcrowding, of an aural and visual landscape filled with advertising, of a population of polyglot cultures competing in a babel of moral decay and homelessness, of achievements in technology and decadence has been conceived by many people as prescient. Above, in the polluted airways, a blimp broadcasts a new life in the ‘off-world colonies’. The injustice of society is epitomised by the towering immensity of the Tyrell building. It is a grandiose Mayan-style pyramid structure with strong vertical and horizontal lines to flatten society streets beneath into unimportance while the people below in the city live in squalid conditions. Tyrell lets his obsession with creation overpower him and consequently scientific advancements have destructed the human environment and the natural. Humans have had to flee the planet as the result of the ecological ruins. This world is an outcome of a society so consumed by corporate culture that it ceases to any longer consider the importance of humankind and puts science at the foremost.

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