The original cyborg-cyberpunk movie, Blade Runner ranks among my all time favorite films. Ridley Scott's first American flick treated audiences with an eye opening look at what it's like to play god and the relationship between humans and futuristic cyborgs. In it's simplest form and in Harrison's own words "[i]t's a film about whether you can have a meaningful relationship with your toaster."
Ford plays Rick Deckard, a retired Blade Runner a unique detective that specializes in tracking and destroying (murdering?) replicants who attempt to pass for human. Replicants are Scott's version of a cyborg. They are stronger and more intelligent than humans, but are created for off-world slave labor and prostitution. The movie follows Ford as he is forced out of retirement to track down four renegade replicants, who have returned to earth to seek out a way to over come their built-in four year life-span.
In some ways the movie is a traditional detective noir, with a morally flawed hero and a voluptuous replicant (Sean Young), but has become a cult sensation due to the serious and deep topics it entertains. I can't recommend this movie enough.
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