Blade runner (1982)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1982
	Director: Ridley Scott
	Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Emmet Walsch, Daryl Hannah
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF, Romance, Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 04.10.2017, Schauburg, German version
Synopsis: In the future 2019 Los Angeles has become a cosmopolite city with cutting edge indutry. Bryant (Walsch) developped robots with artificial intelligence, also called replicants, for services. Deckart (Ford) is a blade runner, a cop specialised in killing replicants. When a small group of replicants arrive in town from a mining colony, it is panic in the police as these are suspected of terrorism. After having been tested by Rachel (Young), Bryant personal replicant, Deckart gets the task to kill them.
Review: Taking advantage of the release of Blade runner 2049, the distributors decided to show Blade Runner final cut as well. As I loved the movie seen on TV in my youth memories, I could not miss it! The story did not change with regard to my memories. The city is very dark and very rainy. The streets do not have much cars and almost no advertisements, but the few are almost only Asian signs.This settles the atmosphere I liked as a kid. The story itself is a kind of love story with few dialogues between Deckart and Rachel. Actually both are caricatures. The lonely policeman / hunter and the fragile woman. Also the way Deckart is claimed one of the best blade runners differs a lot from the action he is involved in. Running in the streets with a huge gun loaded and visible by anyone and not firmly in the hand, the pour fight skill in the street and in the building. But somehow the atmosphere got me hundred percent.  The future is not seen as world of consumption (like most of the recent SF movies), but rather as world of corporatist oppression.  The music by Vangelis enhances perfectly to the dark and mysterious atmosphere. The acting of the droids is amazing. They are all on the one hand very human with their logic and their emotions and in the other hand very inhuman being mercyless. They are actually not different from other humans in that sense. And from the category persepctives, these droids belong to the lowest cast and therefore the story is so captivating. It is a struggle for life of the lower class against the oppressing class.  I am not sure that LA or any town in the world will look like that in 2019, not even two years! But the imaginated world is fascinating. I discovered a lot of small things I did not remember from my childhood: the light-umbrella, the flying cars exclusively for the police.  The rating is biased because the movie was to me the start of dark science fiction. I guess the reason why it is considered as cult! Even if some sequences have some weaknesses.
Rating: 8 /10