No matter which institution ranks, "Blade Runner" always ranks in the top two of the best science fiction films. The only one who can compete with it is Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
I actually watched it once in front of the computer when I was in college, but apart from the wonderful ending, Harrison Ford and the beautiful heroine, I didn't have much impression. At that time, I didn't know how to watch movies, and of course there was no HDTV, home theater, and Blu-ray discs. The small screen and the blurry picture quality tend to obliterate many details, and even affect your understanding and mood, so I have always refused to watch the gun version of the movie.
In this revisit, a person savored in the dark, and I was deeply moved by the deep thinking and dark and solemn artistic style.
The story is not complicated. Man-made clones have wisdom and power beyond ordinary people, but only have a life of 4 years. In order to live a few more years, several clones ventured back to Earth to find a maker, hoping to find a way to live a few more years. And Deckard, played by Ford, was sent to hunt down their blade runner, because cloners are forbidden to exist on the earth. The clones also have emotions. Among them, there are two lovers, and one even has love with Deckard. In the end, Deckard violated the order after killing the other clones and took her to the world.
There are too many thought-provoking clips in the film. In fact, not all cloners are the kind of heinous bad guys. They have the appearance and emotions of normal people, but they are more eager for life, but they rebel against their own destiny. They were sent to do the hardest work, being inferior to others, and facing the fate of being hunted down once they returned to the earth. I really don't know how the maker engineer could endow them with emotion so cruelly, so that they would suffer pain for their own destiny. But is it more cruel if you don't give them emotion? Another classic science fiction film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is just such a proposition. Alien life invades the earth, they will possess when people are sleeping, but after possessing people, they will have no emotions, like walking dead. A pair of lovers tried to escape the chase of the possessed person, but she finally failed to overcome sleep. When he tried to kiss her to wake her, she woke up, but also changed. From the perspective of aliens, without emotion, there will be no hatred, fear, and desire. This is a perfect world. But from a human point of view, without emotion, there is no soul, and without humanity, there is no meaning of existence.
After all, this is a film about human nature. There are different opinions on the profound significance of this film, and its novel author Philip k.Dick said this: In my opinion, the theme of this story is that Deckard is increasingly losing humanity in the process of hunting artificial people, and at the same time, artificial people. People are gradually showing a more human side. Finally, Deckard must ask himself: What am I doing? What is the essential difference between me and them? If there is no difference, then who am I?" (quoted from http:/ /bbs.cjdby.net/viewthread.php?tid=415465 )
Indeed, Deckard is not chasing inanimate robots or inhumane cold-blooded killers. He is chasing and killing all living beings. He has a distinct personality when he is born, and even struggling before death is a lively jump. The most shocking and the most classic scene in the history of science fiction appeared at the end of the film. When the duplicate head Roy saved Deckard's life, but his time limit was approaching, he sat in the rain, hugging a white dove, and said calmly. Out of the last and most beautiful poem in life, and then silent Nirvana, the white dove flies to the sky. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die. The things I have seen, you humans are absolutely unbelievable. I witnessed the warship catching fire on the edge of the Orion constellation, burning on the sea with a beautiful sparkle. However, these will all disappear in an instant, like tears in raindrops...
I watched this clip over and over again. Life is as brilliant as summer flowers, and death is as quiet as autumn leaves. At the last moment of his life, Roy was so nostalgic. It is not difficult to imagine that his short life should have been miserable, but even so, he has had magnificent experiences, magnificent moments, hatred and love. 4 years is too short. So, 100 years, is it long enough? Many animals have less than 4 years of life. Have they ever had beautiful moments and memories? If not, what is the significance of living for 100 years? The strength of life does not lie in length, but if you know that you can only live for 4 years, then the tension of life will be more obvious.
Speaking of memory, this is another thought-provoking theme in this film. The memories of the new clones are transplanted, but the frightening thing is that they don't know it, until someone tells you all the secrets that you haven't made public. Think about it, if you wake up one morning and suddenly find that all your previous memories are fake, you have never really experienced the bits and pieces and little secrets, and you are healthy but you can’t even live until next year. , What can you believe, your most precious memories, the only things left after the passage of time, and even your future and hopes, are suddenly torn apart by mercilessly, what despair, helplessness and emptiness are this? . And all of this comes from the creators who made you, the so-called real people. Is this cruel or ironic?
In fact, there are many clues suggesting that Deckard is also a copy, it depends on how the audience understands it. If he finally knows this fact, will he obey or resist fate? From the standpoint of a copyist, what he did before is justice or morality? Is this the more tragic fate given to him? Fate is another huge subject. And the movie on this subject is my favorite movie, "Terminator 2".
The location in the film is raining almost all the time, and it is almost always dark. I don't believe that Los Angeles will be like that in 2019, but 200 or 500 years later, who knows whether the world at that time will be as crowded, humid, and dark as in the film? Regarding the end times, most science fiction films are pessimistic. In fact, this may be caused by human beings' deep worries about the ever-expanding population, the increasingly harsh environment, and the rapid progress of science and technology but easy to get out of control. It is precisely this pessimistic tone that can more alert the world, will our tomorrow be really better?
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