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Poster for Blade Runner

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Blade Runner

In rain-soaked 2019 Los Angeles, a weary police specialist is ordered to hunt four bioengineered fugitives whose desperate return to Earth forces him to question the boundary between manufactured life and humanity.

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Year
1982
Runtime
118 min
Rating
R
Director
Ridley Scott

The Final Cut pairs Vangelis's aching score with extraordinary production design and a patient noir rhythm; choose the theatrical cut afterward if you want to compare its narration and imposed ending.

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Themes

  • Identity
  • Memory
  • Mortality
  • Artificial life
  • Exploitation

Tone

  • Melancholic
  • Noirish
  • Philosophical
  • Atmospheric

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