Week Eleven: Blade Runner

This past week in class we watched the movie Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford.  The film is about a blade runner that must find and capture four replicants who stole a ship and have returned to earth to find their creator. Replicants are these creatures that are basically robots and don’t have emotions or feelings but after four years they start to become a real person so they have to be destroyed. A big theme in science fiction movies that I notice is how they show something amazing that man has created that always goes bad in the end, this movie is a very strong example of that because humans created these replicants but now they aren’t acting the way they were designed to’ so now man has to destroy it’s original creation. I see this idea used a lot in science fiction tales, another example of that would be Jurassic Park. A scientist decides to breed and control dinosaurs but at the end people are dead and everyone has to evacuate the island to survive.

I feel like both of those films Blade Runner and Jurassic Park raise many questions. Can humans survive for much longer because of all the failed attempts to move forward? Just because something has flaws does it need to be destroyed? Will Harrison ford be able to handle this movie and star wars? I feel like people should appreciate science fiction more because it discusses a lot of future issues that we could have or are having right now. I also feel like science fiction can enlighten people about issues, which can lead to a better future.