cancer death. “When he was ill, I used to go and visit him in London, and that was really traumatic for me.”
An aura of paranoia suffuses the film. Corporate power looms large, the police seem omnipresent, vehicle and warning lights probe into buildings, and the consequences of huge biomedical power over the individual are exploredspecially the consequences for replicants of their programming. Control over the environment is depicted as taking place on a vast scale, hand in hand with the absence of any natural life, with artificial animals substituting for their extinct templates. This oppressive backdrop explains the frequently referenced migration of humans to extra-terrestrial (“off-world”) colonies. The dystopian themes explored in “Blade Runner” are an early example of cyberpunk concepts expanding into film. Eyes are a recurring motif, as are manipulated images,