Comments on: Blade Runner the movie, questions about dystopia? http://www.flickwatcher.com/blog/blade-runner-the-movie-questions-about-dystopia/ We Watch Crap so You Don't Have to! Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:16:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kitty Kubrick http://www.flickwatcher.com/blog/blade-runner-the-movie-questions-about-dystopia/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Kitty Kubrick Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:29:44 +0000 http://www.flickwatcher.com/blog/blade-runner-the-movie-questions-about-dystopia/#comment-157 I always thought they created the dystopia to create perhaps a parrallel with our prosperity (i.e. the technology we've created is incredible but the world has gone to hell). The film stirs up anxieties over our advances as a race, our mortality and losing our position as masters of this planet. We know no animal will take our place, especially not in that environment (dystopian). There's already a widespread fear that we've shot ourselves in the foot by becoming so powerful etc. I always thought they created the dystopia to create perhaps a parrallel with our prosperity (i.e. the technology we’ve created is incredible but the world has gone to hell).

The film stirs up anxieties over our advances as a race, our mortality and losing our position as masters of this planet. We know no animal will take our place, especially not in that environment (dystopian).
There’s already a widespread fear that we’ve shot ourselves in the foot by becoming so powerful etc.

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