the "war on terror" has reduced us to slaves

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Roy Batty's epiphany


Last night I spent far too much time worrying about how to express the depth of my broader frustration and despair before posting the latest version of my regular fulminations over Guantanamo. I should have waited until this morning, when I opened Newsday, and read John Anderson's review of the "Blade Runner: The Final Cut".

Anderson ends his report on what is billed as the director Ridley Scott's definitive version of the dark 1982 classic with this:

One of the its more chilling moments foreshadows our current climate with a kind of clairvoyance.

"Quite an experience to live in fear," says Rutger Hauer's rampaging Replicant, for whom we have no small amount of sympathy. "That's what it's like to be a slave." Here, "Blade Runner" not only foreshadows a post-industrial world, but seems to critique the post-9/11 world as well.


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Indeed, James. "Blade Runner" is one of those dystopian gems, offering much depth from a kernel. I think some of the credit has to go to Philip K. Dick, that "paranoid" who lost his mind in service to resisting authoritarianism.

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Published on October 5, 2007 1:44 PM.

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