British director Ridley Scott was previously famous for skilful adaptation of the historical novel "Duellists" by Joseph Conrad and spectacular cosmic horror film "Alien". In the film "Blade Runner," he creates a unique visual atmosphere of the future. Much credit for this also belongs to the operator Jordan Cronenweth and famous master of special effects Douglas Trumbull (he, in particular, took part in the work on such milestone fantastic films as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Star Trek" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind") . Even the scenes in normal urban areas or in the interiors acquire the skillful use of light, color and space frame construction of a surreal, mysterious meaning. Scott subtly matches the style of a typical "black film" about cynical private detective and science fiction at a high level of technical complexity (Belton, 2013).
The motif of machines revolt against their creators can be found even in medieval legends of the Golem or in the XIX century novel "Frankenstein". The director of "Blade runner", referring to the work "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, comprehended this idea from the point of view of modern dystopia. The technocratic society has reached the incredible progress in the scientific revolution, and now the strong system of individual suppression is working. The love, melodramatic line between Deckard and Rachel's beautiful girlfriend (so hard to accept the fact that it is a phenomenal new generation android), is not accidental and bears considerable artistic and philosophical load. Where is the line between human and robot? Moreover, does "homo sapiens" has the right to contempt, and the right to the physical extermination of the artificial human being?
The police officer Deckard who is replicates fighter, eventually abandons his ruthless "blade run" and runs with Rachel out of the suffocating atmosphere of Los Angeles in 2019. They run to the other places that seem to them as finally acquired paradise of Adam and Eve from the future. Eve, in this case, is a product of the human mind, and not derived from Adam's rib. The short happy life with a replicant away from crazy technocratic civilization seems preferable, rather than a long existence in the so-called human society, that looks more like hell. Escape to Nowhere brings a rare sense of liberation, as seems a true flight
"Blade Runner" is an example of a very interesting combination of art: this is an action movie, spectacular in its components, extremely entertaining for intrigue, and philosophical reflection film, which is a kind of warning about the fate of the coming civilization.
References
Belton, J. (2013). American cinema/American culture (4th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
