Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green
Actors: Ryan
Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Ana De Armas
This is a
sequel to the original “BLADE RUNNER” movie which was released in 1982.
At the time
I saw the original, I found it so filled with mysterious subtext and incredible
ideas that it took three viewings for me to “get” what the story is about. The romance between Decker (Ford) and the
replicant played by an impossibly beautiful Sean Young touched me at such a gut
level, I’ve never been able to forget it.
I had so many
questions: Can an android really know
what love is like? If so, is love a spontaneous
response to “memories”? Is love simply
the sum total of emotions generated by such memories? And never mind that I was blown away by
the incredible potentials of AI technologies.
Well, this sequel
has stirred up even more questions for me along those lines. Ryan Gosling, as this movie’s new Blade
Runner, is heartbreakingly believable as he unravels one mystery after another. He sweeps us into the trauma of his dilemma
and we have no choice but to hang on to his coat tails. The storyline itself is brilliant in concept
and resolution, and Villenueve directed this version with respectful homage to
the original. It is every bit as
fascinating and mind-twisting as the 1982 version.
It was
wonderful to see Ford in his “older” persona of Decker, still possessing all
the passionate convictions which led him to the non-traditional choices of his
past.
Ultimately,
the beauty of this movie is that while it is very much about the technological reality
of our future, it is even more about the infinite possibilities of our human ability
to love what we can remember and imagine about people and things.
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