Iconic: Androids Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) and Pris (Daryl Hannah) are hunted by Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard character in the amazing Blade Runner. As Dick himself put it, ‘I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. Photo: Warner Bros
Blade Runner is one of my favourite science fiction movies of all time. I watched it for the first time in 2002 at a film class in college and got completely knotted up not just in its genre-defining cyberpunk aesthetic but also its philosophical underpinnings.
Since then, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched it; I only know that each time I do, I come away with something new to appreciate.
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