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Blade Runner
1982
Los Angeles, 2019: a city of permanent rain and neon, built in layers, the upper registers gleaming while street level rots. Ridley Scott constructs the film as a noir procedural set inside this world — Deckard, a retired hunter of synthetic humans called replicants, is pressed back into service to track four of them before they find what they came for. The case moves through the city's geography the way classic detective work moves through social strata. What distinguishes it formally is how much the world does: the production design carries load that most films assign to exposition, leaving Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer to work in a space already dense with implication.
