We watched the cult hit "Bladerunner" in class last week, looking at in context of the way technology advances our society and scares us at the same time.
It was my first time to see the movie, set in a futuristic urban setting where Replicants -- human-like robots -- are a threat to the humans who remain on earth. Most humans, it appears, have left the smoldering remains of the earth to live in space colonies. Harrison Ford plays a bladerunner, a specially trained cop who is on the hunt for some recently escaped replicants.
The whole time I was watching the film, I was wondering if Ford himself was a replicant: his obsession with old photos, his efficiency, the way the other officers seemed to be in on some secret. I Googled it later that week, and found I was not alone in this theory.
The underlying message of this bit of chicanery? No matter how little we trust the technology we create ... we're still the ones pulling the strings.
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