I should qualify this post at the outset as a staff pick. When I first approached Pandaking about the possibility of posting films on Zerosec, one of the primary aspects of the position that really grabbed me was chance to post an editors pick. Films that we personally enjoy and more importantly films that bring us pleasure, cinema that makes us feel…. After reading the appreciably excellent and discerning staff pick from smellygruby just the other week I thought I would ‘chip in’ with one of my own

My first staff pick here, on ‘tha Sec’ is the epic and genre defining seminal ‘Final Cut’ of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner a film that is indebted to Phillip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?. By all measures the film that shaped the genre of Science fiction. Despite being produced in 1982 this is a throughly contemporary and brilliant piece of sci-fi cinema that is as to date unquestioningly unrivaled in both scope and execution. With both massive head nods to film-noir and the realist, technological vision Scott succeeds where so many of his contemporaries have miserably failed. You can approach this film and think it was shot 2 years ago, thus is the proficiency and execution of Scott’s work. The screenplay is 64 bit, this shit got depth y’all. The idea of what it is to have consciousness and indeed the the visceral question of what is it to be human, are the primary vectors the film intersects as it’s fundamental axis. It doesn’t have a whole bunch of machine guns with the walls dripping blood mindless fuck you and fuck humanity “here is blood” violent feel, or some guy called Keaneo in a leather coat playing on a thinly veiled and arguable stolen premise but it does have a way ahead of it’s time digital feel and a sophisticated, po-mo realisation that has action and violence that is necessary and punctuated by a brilliant story arc that affirms an intelligent and evolved existential humanity. I won’t expand any further on the plot lest I spoil it. Please do see it for yourself and appreciate the untamed and timeless cinematic vision that is Blade Runner.

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Synopsis: Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious

Ratings: IMDB: 8.3/10.0 (162,642 votes) | RT:94%
Genre: Sci-fi
Directed by: Ridley Scott

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Language: English
First Cinematic Release: 16 October 1982 (USA)

Release Name: Blade Runner Final Cut 2008 BRRip XviD AC3-FLAWL3SS
Video: XviD - 720×306px (WxH) - AR: 2.25 - FPS: 23.976 fps
Audio: AC3 @ 448 Kbps (Constant) - 6 channels
Size: 1 File @ 2.1 GB
Runtime: Release - 117 mins
Filename: BladeRunner-Flawl3ss

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