From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!edler
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Blade Runner
Article-I.D.: cmcl2.6055
Posted: Mon Jun 28 20:49:29 1982
Received: Tue Jun 29 01:30:58 1982

I saw Blade Runner two nights ago.  If you are hoping for
Star Wars or Raiders, don't go.  If you are looking for
something different, I recommend it.  I am interested in
whether viewers feel themselves on morally shakey ground
while watching this movie; I felt there was a tremendous
conflict between the desire to root for the protagonist
and sympathy for the "bad guys", who aren't evil but are
terribly oppressed.  Also, do people think that there is
any significance to the social order presented (intensification
of class divisions), or is this just part of the future
noire image?

Visually, it is tremendous.  It is hard to describe the
depressing view of our future that it presents.  You should
recognize the similarity of style with Alien, another
Ridley Scott effort.  This is an intense film.

			Jan Edler	..!cmcl2!edler