Review of Blade Runner

Movie Review

1. Title of the Movie:Blade Runner

2. Main Characters: Rick Deckard, Roy Batty,Rachael,Tyrell, Leon Kowalski, Zhora, Pris, and J.F. Sebastian

3. Setting(s) of the Film: A dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, where the Tyrell corporation has developed Genetically manufactured people, called replicants. The replicants are used for dangerous jobs on other planets, and colonies. After a small replicant uprising, replicants are deemed illegal on earth, and the blade runner unit is established to "retire" Replicants. To ensure that replicants wouldnt become self aware, The Tyrell Corporation developed a 4 year lifespan so they would just die eventually.

4. Brief Description of the Plot (in your own perspective): A retired blade runner, " Rick Deckard" , is called in by his old chief, after a highly dangerous group of replicants is discovered on earth. Throughout the film, Deckard chases down and destroys all four of the replicants, and he discovers that the replicant group was just trying to expand their own life, and live peacefully.

5. How is the world in the movie different from the world in real life? For one, the world in "Blade Runner" is far more advanced technologically. It has flying cars, Robotic humans, and space colonies.

6. Why do you think this world was created (in the perspective of the people in the film)? The world was created to make things easier for other humans, so they wouldn't have to suffer with arduous tasks such as manual labor, and driving.

7. How does this movie question or challenge our ideas about what is ideal? Well, it challenges our ideas about what is ideal in the sense that people are playing god. You cant just go and create/ destroy life forms.

8. What ideas do you get from this film for your own ideal world movie? Two Words; Flying Cars.