Friday, November 01, 2019

Blade Runner

A reminder that the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner was set in the far off future of Los Angeles November 2019.

We don't have the life-like robots (yet), flying cars (yet) or the space colonies (much further out in the future) predicted by the movie.

But Los Angeles does have out of control traffic, a homeless problem and rolling blackouts. So there's that.

Also a government agent free to hunt for dangerous illegal aliens replicants? That might be the biggest sci-fi aspect of the movie. In real life Los Angeles would have been a sanctuary city and  those replicants on the run probably would have been welcome and given free healthcare.

1 comment:

  1. I hadn't thought of that, November 2019. This is one of my favorite movies to this day.

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