A breathtaking, humanist sci-fi spectacle.
One of the defining films of the
1980s,
Blade Runner heralded English filmmaker
Ridley Scott as one of the world’s master craftsmen of spectacle. Based on
Philip K. Dick’s renowned dystopian novel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, this hybrid genre-bending film has the distinguished honor of being both one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, as well as one of cinema’s greatest noirs.
It’s a remarkable achievement that a film of such magnitude in world-building and special effects still feels so intimately personal. The spectacle is always the backdrop rather than the focus, as the story urges us to reconsider our conceptions of humanity and what it means to be human.
A truly visionary masterpiece,
Blade Runner is one of the films that proves Hollywood is not adverse to the lyrical, philosophical and poetic. Spirituality, and the desire to connect to something greater than oneself, is the ghost in the machine.
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