It depends on Us

The Bladerunner was produced in 1982 that is too early to see what will happen in 20^th century. The background of this movie is in 2019 in Los Angeles, the replicates want to survive after getting human’s emotion while human are trying to kill them all.  The eye symbol at the beginning and the end of the movie, in my opinion indicates that all these are depends on us human beings. In other words, how future would look like is all from our imagination. However, how it will truly be in the future depends on what we are doing right now.  The scene in the eyes could change at any time while we are making different effort on different things.

   For me I love this movie because it has many metaphors that need us to take a long time to think about it. For example, the eyes and other symbolic sign on the street. Besides that, the conversation between people is also under carefully design by director, because it fits the time background and complex relationship between characters very well.

  Last but not least, at the beginning of this semester, we talked about the contemporary movie about monsters are tending to related more to human’s emotion, such as friendship and love. In this movie, the love between replicate and human just reflect the trend. In 1986, it could be seen like a frontier that add these emotional expression in a science fiction, monster related movie.

  In a nutshell, the Bladerunner is a landmark of monster movies, especially in movies about “replicates” or “colones”.