Great Movies While High: Blade Runner

The threats of a sequel (why Ridley why?!), combined with the good fortune of catching it on late while faded lately has tempted me to remind you: Blade Runner is a great film while high.

It’s also a great film while drunk, sober, angry, happy, single, taken- whatever your physical or emotional state.  If there ends up being an afterlife, I bet it kicks ass there too…but I digress.

I turn my lighter up to this film because it’s been keeping me up since before I was on the pipe. I was ten years old the first time I saw it; the movie was eleven years old. I casually say it’s one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time. It’s more like one of the reasons cyberpunk is my genre.

Blade Runner has just made sense to me since the very beginning. I wasn’t an optimistic kid and it was already an unfair world in ’93. Let’s just say the future looking like shit sold me on the genre. It was as if I knew Mars was for Kim and Kanye…oh and fucking North I guess, lulz…but not for me. However, despite my smart ass and the chip on my shoulder, this kid always cheered for technology. I was in awe of the world that I saw; I am also petrified at how prophetic it (Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) was/is.

2019 is pretty damn close and that’s why some OG Raskal Shatter had me baked and pondering on this one, yet again.

No flying cars and we are nowhere near a Martian colony yet, no matter what Newt Gingrich says.  And though we don’t have androids yet either, go ahead and take a snap…exhale…we do have “Android” running phones, PC’s, cars, fridges, lighting, locks…point made. The future world of Blade Runner is so close it’s scary- if anything, our 1% is even scarier than Blade Runner’s Tyrell Corporation.

Is there anyone else that doesn’t believe that as soon as we do have androids they won’t be exploited? The idea of them getting pissed and revolting against ‘Mericans sounds so plausible I would’ve let Phillip K. Dick read my palm. RIP

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