blade runner

now i understand where has it all began. ghost in the shell, and the doubts of major motoko kusanagi, a cyborg who was once a human, but now has a metal shell and wonders if she is a life; and the puppet master, a setient being, a conscience without a body who emerged from the endless crossroads of information of the net, claiming for rights as it is an existence. the matrix, and the relationship between men and machine, between intelligence and artificial intelligence. and i could go on and on - it was all there, back in 1982, when ridley scott decided to bring to the big screen the book by philip k. dick do androids dream of electric sheep?.

blade runner is one hell of an achievement: made in 1982 and still outshines many modern movies when it comes to visuals. the plot is dense, as we follow the steps of the blade runner deckard (harrison ford, and it's funny to see him so young again). his mission is simple - to put an end to four replicants, a class of androids who rebelled themselves and were due to deactivation. but what seems as simple as shooting four tin-humans turns out to be a complex mission, as deckard meets a fifth replicant (rachel). through an interesting set of characters, the movie raises many questions - many of those are yet unanswered.

put a soundtrack by vangelis over the top and you've get a rare cake here.