[achtung]

The premise, and the philosophical underpinnings, of the movie are great. The speech at the end is great too, as well as the "romantic scene". These things rise questions, but the movie was executed in such a way that out felt fractured to me. I feel as if portions of the interactions between Rachel and Deckard were missing. Or maybe

Spoiler:

That was supposed to be as much of a rape kind of scene as I think it was

The rest of the choppiness can probably be pinned to time limits/budget. I feel like this movie could haves been much longer.

[Flipside]

I think the scene was intended to be a rape scene, maybe a statement on objectification and how our own desires define what we consider to be an 'object' when it suits us. I could, of course, be reading too much subtext into the situation, it's one of the weird things about Ridley Scotts' work is that he can go from generic blockbuster stuff like Gladiator to deep introspective human-condition stuff like Blade Runner and Prometheus, I suppose it depends on what he is given to work with in the first place.

The story would have been better presented as a mini-series I think, but in the early 80's such things were pretty much unheard of, it was either a 'standard' TV series or a one-off movie.

[z64555]

Was looking through my parent's VHS tape collection yesterday, and was a bit surprised to find one of Blade Runner. Although I haven't watched it (don't have VHS player with me), I think it has a few deleted scenes from the theatrical version.