The opening scene of Blade Runner: The Final Cut is designed to introduce the audience to the dark and bleak world of Los Angeles in the year 2019. The first glimpse that the audience has of this futuristic society is a bird\u2019s eye view of the smokey cityscape with bursts of fire being shot up into the night sky. The blasts give the setting a war zone like feel, suggesting that this area is one of intense conflict, which we later learn is between the humans and the illegal Nexus-6 replicants. Furthermore, the scene\u2019s hazy overtones give off the impression that some important lines are being blurred. Those lines in this case happen to be the so-called humanity or empathy that is being used to separate the humans from the replicants. So, right off the bat, the audience is made aware of role dehumanization is going to play in this film. The scene concludes with the image of an eye that is reflecting the scene at hand. The eye suggests that this city is being kept under close surveillance by some unknown entity. This fact becomes important later when the audience witnesses the great lengths the police force goes to discern which people are humans and which ones are replicants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The opening scene of Blade Runner: The Final Cut is designed to introduce the audience to the dark and bleak world of Los Angeles in the year 2019. The first glimpse that the audience has of this futuristic society is … Continue reading