Posted on 10/06/2017 7:53:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Ford’s reprised Deckard and Ryan Gosling’s blade runner K both have complex inner lives behind their macho reticence. K, like Deckard, doesn't think critically about his job or the replicants he executes. His demeanor remains a mask for the audience to endlessly consider in long, uncut close-up—until a revelation forces him to question his identity, and his world falls apart repeatedly across his face. Deckard describes the heart-wrenching motivations for his self-exile and the agony that has accompanied it; Leto’s Wallace monologues at length about his megalomaniacal ambitions to play god to a species that can overrun humankind. Each man gets a story, and each story gets an airing.
Despite their unrelentingly pedestrian Psych 101 woes, these three men still manage to take up 95 percent of the emotional frame on screen, leaving little room for the women around them to have their own narratives.
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How many Midgets-of-Color were in the movie?
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Waiting for a remake of “The Wild Bunch” with an all female cast
What a depressing movie that was. A remake featuring the Swedish Bikini Team would be a definite improvement.
The author’s premise is bogus from the start, since Deckard had previously quit because of his guilt over the job. Remember the voice-over in the original, where he didn’t react well to praise for killing the first female replicant, saying, “..it didn’t make me feel better about shooting a woman in the back.”
Thus raising one of the fascinating questions in the first movie: Is Deckard the good guy or the bad guy in this movie?
Perhaps one the worst reviews I’ve ever read. You learn nothing about the production values, special effects, story, acting or themes. You get multiple paragraphs complaining there aren’t enough women and minorities to suit him and that the plot focuses too much of the protagonist stars of the movie. (yes, that was really a complaint he raised).
It’s a little like when I told a gal at work that I was rooting for the humans in “Avatar”. She looked at me like I’d just bitten the head off a kitten.
This review strikes me as shot through with the shallowness of the latest mutation of the secularist, pragmatist, empiricist, materialist, and relentlessly political movement called Progressivism. The story is about men reacting to something uniquely feminine. Without “das ewig Weibliche” there is no story.
If it's true that to the person with a hammer everything is a nail, to the person to whom everything is power politics and nothing more, every piece of attention given to males is one less piece given to females.
It's not for her enough to center the plot on the meaning and consequence of das ewig Weibliche. We have to have affirmative action and affirmative character development, and people of all colors and conditions, as well as of all “genders,” must shine no less and have no less screen time or the movie is nothing but a sad reflection of a deficiency of “wokeness.”
Well, the review burns a pinch of incense before a bust of Caesar's wife, throws a sop to the three-headed bitch guarding the Progressive hell. But it says nothing of importance.
See the movie. It's a tour de force.
Good post. And I will act on your recommendation.
The Goethe quote however is incomprehensible to me. What “eternal female”. And how would it “draw us upward”. Us who? And upwards to what?
But then, I am perhaps an irredeemable Philistine in some matters of higher art — still puzzling how anyone ever took Wagner’s “perfect fool” schtick seriously.
“It’s a little like when I told a gal at work that I was rooting for the humans in “Avatar”. She looked at me like I’d just bitten the head off a kitten.”
You mean we weren’t supposed to root for the humans?
Been there, done that:
The old argument comes round again:
“Is Deckart a replicant or not?”
“Is Deckard the good guy or the bad guy in this movie?”
It’s all a bit of a gray area, isn’t it? You might think the replicants are just poor oppressed slaves trying to win their freedom, until they start brutalizing people who really had very little responsibility for their situation, even killing the one human who was voluntarily helping them for no reason.
I suspect that.......”only his hairdresser knows”
Man, talk about projection. Freshman Social Theory is the intellectual death of the West. The movie is about what it is to be human and the author can't get past the color of their artificial epidermises. These Deep Thinkers are, after all, people who see racism in Dr. Seuss, so I suppose it shouldn't ever be surprising, but it is always disappointing.
Good. Bad. Doesn’t matter.
They were a threat that had to be eliminated.
The actress certainly has. Here’s hoping nobody posts a recent pic of her.
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