Sunday, March 21, 2010

Blade Runner















1. Blade Runner is best known for its cyberpunk mise en scene (design aspects of the film): the incredibly dense texture of its shots. Watch very carefully and describe the 2020 culture the movie suggests visually.

- I think that Blade Runner is best known one of the revolutionary SF movie because usually SF movie directors wanted to show how future will improve and develop in society, such as vehicle and new law. However, Blade Runner shows the dark future on city( chaos ) that I was really interested. I felt that in the movie old things and new things exist together like some of part of things are changed and others are still exist that makes chaos I think. For example, cars fly over the sky between buildings. We can see the development at the scene. On the other hand, there are many of old type of restaurant on the street and then Deckard told his order to cook in conversation that we cannot see any differences from now. Moreover, I could see a cleavage in society between the rich and the poor. Thus, I thought that future means not being development and improvement that director wants to show I guess.

2. A moral message of the movie is that it was wrong to enslave the replicants and use them as forced labor since they were so human-like in both appearance and thought process. What would need to be different about replicants in order for us to feel that it was OK to use them for labor?

- At first, what makes people difference between human is personalities. It is life and also it is different from robots. Obviously, I could not see difference on five replicants. They are almost human or living things at least. I think we do not need perfect robot which is exact humanity robot. We should not make any individuality in robot.


3. Pulling in our current topics of Order and Chaos “The Self Among Others” what kind of economy does the 2020 world live in? Give examples of imagery or quotes to support your opinion.

-I guess that world will be more international, just like the movie, such as speaking a lot of languages in the city. At the time, I really wonder about how communication will be changed. We now use e-mail and cell phones(information appliance) to contact with each other. If it is changed more, it will be less communication between human.




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