Blade Runner

Dear bloggie,

"What does it mean to be human?"

That's the question that plays around my mind after watching tis ancient 80's movie staring Harrison Ford. Tis movie, is directed by the same dude that directed Alien and Prometheus. For a 80's film, the special effect is nothing short but amazing. While u dun get the same feel as Avatar world, but u definitely is transported into an futuristic urban planet earth. The worlds is vibrant, brought to live not by high tech cutting edge CGI but by amazing lightin, props and whacky costumed backdrop actors.

So what's the movie about? Here's the problem... What happens when we humans created another being that looks like us, thinks like us and can feel like us? How do we differentiate between us and them? Would "humanity" be something exclusive to us then?

Deckard(Harrison Ford) is a retired Blade Runner. A Blade runner is sorta of a special policeman that specializes in tracking and retiring Replicants. Replicants are man made robots that have the face of a human, thinking of human but lack the emotions of a human. Deckard been assigned the task to hunt a group of rogue Replicants. But how can one find these rogues replicants when it's so hard to differentiate between one and a normal human? Further complicating things, Deckard finds himself having affection for a pretty chick Replicant. The setting of the movie is noir style... low lighting and unbalanced composition (according to wiki) sorta like old skool detective storytelling style. One ponders about if humanity is about emotions, then should the Replicants that is potrayed throughout the movie with such strong emotions compared to the emotionally cold Deckard, can they considered as human? It is the climax near the near however that steals the show for me... When a Replicant that have killed so many and is about to Deckard but decides to save Deckards instead, if a being is capable to regret his action and attone for his past sin, is that not "humanity"?

The ending ends with a rather controversial note that fueled debates for decades. Is Deckard the Blade Runner that hunts and retire Replicant, a replicant himself? Amazing stuff really... This movie has actually achieved cult status and I'm not surprise really considering the extraordinary plot, awesome special effects, great cast of actors... Phenomenal...