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In
an earlier post I stuck my thumbs, way up for the Bladerunner sequel.
I have also viewed Razor's video film review and I can't say I
disagree with him much, except while his criticism are valid, do not
alter in anyway what a great movie the sequal is.
I
felt the new movie was packed with subtext. That the ideas were so
very big and so much was packed into this "slow" movie that
any legit critique on the films visual product just doesn't distract
from the movie's storytelling achievement.
Some
of the obvious subtext packed into the visual narrative were the male
car power symbol and the replicant Love's savage "womb"
murder of the police chief's tightly bound emotional messiness. And none of that film noir voice overs to
tell you what is going on or what people are thinking and feeling.
The workmanship way the protagonist was hauled out of the skies by
the garbage pickers in San Diego, loved it.
Visually
yes the movie has stunning scenes, but as would be expected it is not
so much the elements but the expert handling of space. Intense focus
on the individual while moving through various layers of physical
space from the claustrophobic to vertigo inducing openness. This
never lets up. No matter where our main character finds himself there
is always the pressure of the "other". Never does our hero
feel alone, but at the same time completely isolated.
These
are all boringly, maddeningly trite cliches fleshed out during early
twentieth century literature. I think it was called "Modern"
literature or some such. Sartre covers all this.
I
like the fact that "every" current replicant is set up to
believe they are the miracle child.
The
very human police chief, she is awesome. Could have done without
Deckard. Really, the time involved would erase his existence. The
concepts being tackled could have withstood this earlier character's
abscence. Shouting in the car, asking questions with no answers. Big
fat rabbit hole.
The
villain's answer to the paradox is simple and archetypal. Unmoving
cosmic forces given the face of flesh. Good sci fi movie. I look
forward to watching it again and letting it marinade in my psyche
some more. And all this yes the criticism are all still valid and it
doesn't matter.
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