Monday, January 12, 2009
Blaidrunna
Today's film was Bladerunner, a dystopian film where humans live in fear of a dangerous species known as Replicates. Replicates are androids designed by humans to work almost like slaves. There is a special police force known as The Bladerunners dedicated to eradicating all Replicates due to their adapting emotions and superhuman behavior. I thought that it was a fairly farfetched film. It seems silly that humans would create a large number of such dangerous creatures without predicting that their emotions could have massive backlash. Furthermore, I do not understand why there was not some form of an emergency exit plan in case something bad did come from the Replicates. Instead, The Bladerunners were put into action, which seems a bit of a hasty decision. The film did a good job of analyzing what defines human behavior in terms of violent tendencies and negative feelings, but nothing really struck me in particular about this film. I feel it had a lot of potential but didn't turn out to be all that thought-provoking. Fun to watch, but compared to the other films we've seen, it didn't really get me to think much.
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I think the safety valve was supposed to be programming them to die after 4 years. The Bladerunners were for the few that returned to earth for whatever reason, because they were outlawed from earth. I think if we spent more time discussing the film, you would see that it's actually one of the deeper movies we have seen.
ReplyDeleteWell, even though there were large amounts created, they were sent to other planets, far from Earth where they can cause harm. I agree with Jana that it is one of the deeper films that we've seen and I thought it was one of the best ones.
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