Blade Runner - The Cyberpunk World of 2019

Nels 2022-04-22 07:01:02

Film Review | "Blade Runner" - 2019's Cyberpunk World

The term cyberpunk is very popular recently, and from the perspective of public aesthetics, cyberpunk is very visually beautiful, but for us, in addition to its visual beauty, cyberpunk is very attractive. The spiritual core is the meaning of its existence. This film review mainly hopes to realize the spiritual connotation that cyberpunk wants to express through the typical cyberpunk movie "Blade Runner".

The movie "Blade Runner" is an epoch-making masterpiece of cyberpunk. It was filmed in the 1980s. The time and space of the sci-fi world in the movie is set in Los Angeles in the winter of 2019. From the picture point of view, this old movie is really beautiful, and its shaping of sci-fi cities is never out of date even today. From the background setting, it is the prediction of the 2019 world in the 1980s - high-tech, low life; the boundaries between replicators and human beings are not clear; replicators, as a tool to serve human beings, start to resist for death because of consciousness .

The story tells that in 2019, Los Angeles became a land of nine evils. Taylor's advanced robots have developed to the chain stage. These replicas that are no different from real people work for humans. They are good in physical strength, sensitivity and intelligence. They are used by humans in the outer world for slave labor, dangerous expedition work and other planets. On the colonization mission, after the bloody riots of the external colony's No. 6 battle group, the replicas were declared illegal on the earth - they must be executed, and the secret service team - the transliteration killer was ordered to detect any invading replicators and kill them. That's not called Execution is called retirement. When the replicants are put into use, they are only set to have a life span of four years, which means that when these replicants have thoughts and feelings, they will be destroyed. Although the android is cruel by nature, he is full of longing and nostalgia for the four years of life he only has. Humans do not allow these replicas to have the right to be normal people, so these beings who have been condemned as "attempting to be human" must be destroyed. The protagonist, Deckard, is a blade runner who specializes in chasing down renegade replicants. He shoulders the heavy responsibility of chasing down rebellious androids, but when he meets the beautiful replicator Rachel, a relationship develops between the two, and he begins. In a dilemma, I understood the efforts made by the replicants to prolong the life of their machines, and gradually began to reflect on the fate of mankind.

A recurring depiction of the city's constant darkness throughout the film, the sky is always black, the dark clouds block all natural light, the rain is lingering, the smog fills the air, the mournful music fills the air, and the people on the street whisper low. Head walks in a hurry. It is in stark contrast to the ever-bright neon lights and the modern traffic that flies around in the sky. Most people live in crowded and harsh environments. In contrast, Taylor, the owner of the Taylor Company, lives in towering modern buildings, and the living environment is elegant and beautiful. This is a very contrasting time and space setting. The gap between the rich and the poor, political contracts give way to corporate monopoly, and the development of machines gradually leads to the loss of ethics. This is a social atmosphere that makes people feel panic and uneasy.

As a current hot word, cyberpunk appears more and more frequently in our lives. Understanding what cyberpunk is can be understood from its composition. Cyberpunk is composed of "cyber" and "punk". Cyber ​​means network in English, representing a sci-fi future. The word punk comes from For rock, with a sense of rebellion.

Science fiction is the beginning of cyberpunk, and it gets more visual play in Japanese animation. Later, with the development of film and television art, cyberpunk gradually gets more display in movies.

Cyberpunk is beautiful in appearance, with a very modern and impactful beauty. The urban landscape is the most representative carrier of cyberpunk, with various three-dimensional traffic, colorful neon lights, and modern machines with metallic textures. , The crowded and dilapidated living environment is the most representative element of the cyberpunk city. In reality, Chongqing, China is a city with a strong cyberpunk atmosphere: towering and crowded buildings, colorful lights, three-dimensional traffic, and a sky with rare sun. This is the cyberpunk beauty of Chongqing. The concepts displayed by these cyberpunk elements are: technological progress, artificial intelligence development, indistinguishable boundaries between machines and humans, indistinguishable boundaries between virtual and reality, and widening the gap between the rich and the poor. It is an interpretation of "high-tech, low-life".

It is in this shaping scene that love and death become more blurred, and machines have become a habitual existence in society, a topic that is difficult to avoid and possibly impossible to talk about.

If cyber represents a predictive description of the future world, then punk may be due to the fear of this future description. The development of science and technology has reached the point of perfection, but can this high-tech cyberworld bring the life people want? We are getting farther and farther from the blue sky and white clouds and all true natural feelings, and we become like ants, living in the dark. We are afraid, we reflect, we are helpless, we are confused.

The year 2019 set in "Blade Runner" has arrived, the sky is still colored, social ethics still exist, the world is still beautiful, and there is still hope in life, the terrible world in the film has not yet arrived, but cyberpunk works are getting more and more The more. For example, "Ready Player One" and "Love, Death, Robot", which have been very popular in the past two years, are a rational reflection with fear in the face of the rapid development of technology.

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Extended Reading
  • Viviane 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The background settings are great, and the details are great. The deepest impression is the scene of Roy dying in the rain. It is said that the scene was improvised.

  • Avis 2022-03-22 09:01:08

    How the hell is this filmed in 1982?

Blade Runner quotes

  • Batty: [taunting Deckard with a counting rhyme] Six! Seven! Go to Hell or go to Heaven!

    Deckard: [Deckard smashes an iron rod against Batty's head] Go to Hell!

    Batty: [grabbing the iron rod] GOOD! THAT'S THE SPIRIT!

  • Roy: We've got a lot in common.

    Sebastian: What do you mean?

    Roy: Similar problems.

    Pris: Accelerated decrepitude.