Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner is a film made in 1982 and directed by Ridley Scott. The film is Sci-Fi action that shows off a futuristic Los Angeles. The film is set in 2019 and first of is amusing to think the year currently writing this is 2019 and nothing is near what it is like in the film, and is funny to think people back then would of thought 2019 will be a world full of flying cars and technology. The film stars Harrison Ford who plays Rick Deckard who is a blade runner this is someone who hunts down Replicants which are Roberts who are identical to humans, the Replicants are used as slaves and start to rebel and gain their own emotions and start to kill humans.

The film starts straight to the point by setting what the story is about the music and colours of the scene are dark which show the audience there’s going to be action and the film is not going to be a happy story. Music is used throughout the film a lot and has a classic Sci-Fi feel to it, the music belongs in the film and enhances the futuristic experience. In my opinion at times the music is to over powering and seems too loud for such a innocent scene for example just flying around in the police car the police HQ.

The lighting in the film is always dark giving a classic detective vibe to the film, to me I personally feel it’s always dark due to pollution and the amount of people there its seems earth is being destroyed and the film gives off that everything feels claustrophobic and the only light in the film are from giant neon signs or spotlights from the giant blimp in the sky. For the time it is made the world of Blade Runner is very visually pleasing and looks beautiful and makes the audience feel as if they are there. Its full of bright colours as Deckard is in the main part of the city.

The plot fits in with its futuristic environment and is very straight forward it’s about a cop who has been tasked to kill robots who are like humans due to them killing people and the story then follows Deckard hunt down the robots and kill them, and like most films Deckard starts to have feelings for one of the female robots and runs away with her at the end of the film.

In my opinion i didn’t enjoy the film i just couldn’t get engaged in the story and especially the main character other aspects that effect it to me is by its old I’m not saying i dislike it because its old but due to its age the graphics and style of it is different compared to the films I’m typically used to. The plot was ok but didn’t have much story, it was interesting to see how the robots felt and what they would do to try and live a normal life.