Really beautiful post by Sarah Gailey:

“But I would not call the world of Blade Runner strange, because it’s the opposite of strange. It’s familiar. If you subtract the flying cars and the jets of flame shooting out of the top of Los Angeles buildings, it’s not a far-off place. It’s fortunes earned off the backs of slaves, and deciding who gets to count as human. It’s impossible tests with impossible questions and impossible answers. It’s having empathy for the right things if you know what’s good for you. It’s death for those who seek freedom.

It’s a cop shooting a fleeing woman in the middle of the street, and a world where the city is subject to repeated klaxon call: move on, move on, move on.

It’s not so very strange to me.”

Last week I watched Blade Runner for the first time. I can't say that I had the same impression as Gailey; I found it visually beautiful and very weird and not especially enjoyable, but that's because I'm not as insightful as her. Having read this, I think she's spot on.