Saturday, March 20, 2010

Blade Runner: A look into the future


Question:
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.

Response:
In 2010, as the film Blade Runner suggests is run and looks very differently than the society in which we happen to live in today. In the "future" as described by the film has clones, flying cars, and flying billboards. The technology that is around today is no where near the advancement that is being shown in the movie. Scientists have for years been trying to create clones and robots and trying to advance the world in technology.

Question:
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?

Answer:
In order for the replicants to become accepted in our world as an assistant to the working field would require the replicants to learn all of the necessary skills that would be needed to help the workforce succeed. I feel as though in order for us, as humans to become comfortable with the replicants working among us, they would be able to help out all of the workers with their job so that the work day can go much more smoothly.

Picture taken from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russelldarling/3467086429/

1 comment:

  1. I believed that the moral message is not to not make people artificial or real should not enslave one another.

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