Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Movie Download
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Hampton Fancher Michael Green Philip K. Dick
Stars: Harrison Ford Ryan Gosling Ana de Armas
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Movie Review
I didn’t see Blade Runner when itdebuted in American theatres in 1982. In fact, I doubt I was even aware of its existence. I was 13 at the time and not the least bit tempted by science fiction – or by philosophy, for that matter. But my interests had changed dramatically by the time Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut came out in 1992. By then I’d seen the original theatrical version on VCR more than once and thus, along with many of my fellow grad students, I waited in a long line at the Nuart Theater in West Los Angeles to see a truer version of director Ridley Scott’s original vision for the movie on the big screen. (Little did we know that an even truer version of his vision for the movie, The Final Cut, would come out several years later.)
In a sense, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to cite Blade Runner as the defining film of my time in graduate school. My thinking about central issues in philosophy of mind – from memory and consciousness to self-knowledge and selfhood – was in many ways shaped by the movie. And I was not the only one for whom this was true. Countless hundreds of undergraduates who filled the UCLA lecture halls were introduced to philosophical thinking about the mind via Joseph Almog’s reflections on Rachael (Sean Young) and on the way that, despite her non-human status, despite the fact that she is what the movie refers to as a Replicant, she is nonetheless one of us.
So, suffice it to say that I went into Blade Runner 2049 with a high level of anticipation … but also with a non-trivial amount of trepidation. Like many fans of the original, I was worried that the sequel would fail to do it justice. Fortunately, the worry was for naught. That’s not to say that I loved every minute of the movie – nor that I understood every minute of it. (One salient example, on both counts, was the particularly grotesque scene involving the destruction of a female replicant by her creator, the decidedly unhinged Niander Wallace, played by Jared Leto.) And, perhaps unsurprising for a film that clocked in at 163 minutes, there were stretches where the plot seemed to lag. But the film nonetheless proved to be both a beautiful homage to its predecessor and a magnificent cinematic achievement in its own right. It also raised a whole host of new and interesting questions for the contemporary generation of philosophically-oriented viewers to explore. For a wide variety of reasons, then, Blade Runner 2049 will repay additional viewing.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Movie Download
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