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Release Date: 04 February, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (16 total) |
Blade Runner [Director's Cut] Reviews
Doubtful
Blade Runner didn't do much justice for me. There's something missing or wrong with the theatrical and the 1991 DC versions. I will give this movie another chance when it comes out next year. I hope Mr. Scott will give its proper cut.
"IT'S NOT AN EASY THING TO MEET YOUR MAKER"
Set in a grim Los Angeles of the future, many of earth's inhabitants have migrated to other planets. Roy, the replicant leader has returned to earth, but he, like the other replicants, is scheduled to die. His four years are almost up, for him soon it will be `time to die'. The greater part of his tragedy is that he lives life hyper-aware of his death. A death which is decreed to the day by his maker. He is made by the Tyrell Corporation as a product, a being who looks human but having extra-human powers, but with sub-human emotions as he will not live long enough to build up a soul of true humanity. The Tyrell replicants are too powerful to be allowed to run loose---on earth or elsewhere---so they have a fail-safe built into them: they are designed to fail after four short years of life.
Roy is the most dangerous of all replicants, a warrior class officer, a combat model. And having fought for his owners in space battles, he has now escaped and returned to earth with a few other replicant model types to somehow extend their artificially limited lives. The police have the Blade Runners out, death squad cops who specialise in hunting renegade replicants. The replicants are hard to spot, they are tougher, smarter, and more determined than any designed before. There is even the worry that they will develop fully human emotional responses, and so become too similar to humans to tell apart.
The whole film is replete with religious signs and symbols and quotes. Lines from the bible and scriptural imagery are woven throughout. One of female replicants performs onstage with the snake `which tempted Eve'. Tyrell, the heartless genius who is the chief replicant designer, calls Roy `the prodigal son' [prodigal - a waster who returned home]. Roy says to Tyrell `It's not an easy thing to meet your maker', and in a confessional tone, `I've done questionable things'. When Roy meets Chou, the eye designer, he quotes `Fiery the angels fell, deep thunder rolled around the shores, burning with the fires of Orc' (a replicant who has read Blake's prophetic poem, `America', he deliberately misquotes). Pris, the pleasure model, says to Sebastian the geneticist, `I think Sebastian, therefore I am'. The question is, with all the human beings so flawed, so unlovely, so downright unpleasant, what is the difference between the replicant products and them? Maybe just a few more years on earth.
Mortality, humanity, time, finitude, purpose, salavation, redemption: all these and more are here. Roy is the only replicant left. He fights Dekkard, the best of the Blade Runners, fights for his life although he knows he has minutes left of his deathday. He was created to fight, so in fighting he fulfils the purpose for which he was created. He wins a few more minutes of life by stabbing his hand through with a large nail. It is impossible to ignore the symbolism. The pain clears his mind and focuses his will. The tables are turned, Dekkard is going to fall to his death. But the hand with nail is the hand he uses to grab Dekkard before he falls. He saves his life. But now for him it is indeed `time to die'. He has always known that this moment would come. The crisis is upon him: he is created to kill, but at the last he preserved life. He does not want to die alone. He last words to Dekkard are of the all beauty he has seen in his short, violent life, which are now to be lost as he passes from this world. It seems that he has won his humanity at the last. Being created to kill, at the last he found he could choose not to. The dove he holds in his hands flies up free as he loses consciousness, the last symbol impossible to miss. But Dekkard the professional killer has to live on, he has demons of his own to fight. He is still looking for happiness, and he needs a relationship above all to make his life worthwhile. There is all too little beauty, goodness, and love in his life. He knows he is still searching, but who cares?
The Frankenstein theme is unmistakable. When God created, He created a Man who was `very good', not yet complete, not yet perfect, but without errors or flaws. The Man chose his own path, wanted to make it on his own. The world he goes on to create is so very flawed. Above all, when Man creates in his own image, he makes in his own flawed image, with the weaknesses inevitably magnified in his sub-creation. He is no substitute god, he is a tyrant and exploiter, and his creation turns angrily on his maker. So who can redeem him?
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