Maria Rovira (Oye Sherman)

'Blade runner': Good thing we started separating waste and organic

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Image of the famous monologue of Roy Batty, the replicant played by actor Rutger Hauer, in the final scene of 'Blade runner'.Alcon Entertainment

There are many movies I haven't seen. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the tragedy, until lockdown I hadn't seen Dirty dancing (what a marvel) or Pretty woman. I wanted to take advantage of this series of articles to effectively fill some of my cinematic gaps. In an era of massive audiovisual supply and absolute fragmentation of channels, I cure my FOMO in deferred. This week I saw Blade runner for the first time.

Notes I write while watching 'Blade runner' for the first time
  • Things I knew: long, dark, replicants, Harrison Ford and a cool monologue, ships beyond Orion and I don't know what. You know that movies are quoted in Spanish, because cinema imitates life and in our life there is DIGLOSSIA.
  • It is set in the year 2019. This was the forecast from 1982 of what the world would be like. And it would have been like this, but we started to separate waste from organic matter and changed the course of history. You're welcome, non-extinct species.
  • What an anxiety to live in a world where you constantly have to prove you're not a robot. I always get the captchas wrong that are supposed to determine that you are not one. What is more human than error? I'd like to give the Voight-Kampff test to people I know; my manager, for example.
  • The danger of training AI with deadly power is clear. We are not using them to colonize dangerous planets, but to review our spreadsheets and solve math problems that we did in the second year of ESO without difficulty. This is how we let them know we are stupid and that they can dominate us whenever they want.
  • Futuristic etiquette: it's rude to tell someone they're a replicant, especially if they didn't know until now.
  • The kissing scene between Deckard and Rachael gives you goosebumps. Surprisingly, it leads to a love story. In the future, there are no green spaces or consent, it seems. What is Deckard looking for in a vulnerable creature ignorant of so many things? The answer is: an equal relationship.
  • The styling of the two protagonist replicants, Batty and Pris, is that of two people who have just come out of a Berlin afterparty during filming.
  • The title of the book on which the film is based is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: tender, reflective, evocative. Blade runner: cool, testosteronic, also works for razors.
  • There's a homosexual kiss (oh!), but it's used to kill someone (ooh...).
  • It's very interesting how artificial intelligence incorporates the notion of death and faces its own finitude. With the heat of this summer, I've dreamed of programmed obsolescence after only four years.
  • Goosebumps with the final monologue, which Rutger Hauer edited on his own initiative with great success. I understand that this encouraged many actors to tweak their lines, generally with less success.
  • I find it incredible that this Ridley Scott, the one from Blade runner, is the same Ridley Scott from Thelma & Louise. This is not being versatile, this is having a replicant of you manufactured to direct a single film and then having you... retired.
  • (Side note: Ridley and Scott sound like the names of two very rich Labrador brothers who have their own social media and spend their days by the pool.)
  • It would have been consistent to ask an AI to write this column for me, but I guess I'm a romantic. (And I still have a shred of professional ethics.) (Now I'm patting myself on the back for not being a scammer.)
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Verdict: incredible atmosphere and music, a history of science fiction and cinema at the same time. I would have liked there to be less footage of Harrison Ford beating up humanoid roomba-like bots inside houses that urgently need renovating.