Projection Design

“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Thoughts on Blade Runner

There are many movies produced by current filmmakers about human's future, but I believe that I finished my first real science fiction film until I have seen the movie called Blade Runner.
Actually, I couldn't understand every conversation when I watched, but I could still receive those cold-blooded,hopeless and lonely emotions in the film. Endless darkness and dirtiness in the street while temporary artificial light and  delicacy in the room, which develops a great contrast to our audience. 

Whether from macro environment setup or micro details design, this film is successful. I notice a detail related to character's eyeballs in the film. On the one hand, replicant's creator wore a pair of thick glasses, whose eyes are deformed beneath those glasses and finally, as a punishment, his eyes to be pierced by his replicant. Replicant Roy and his lover, their white part in  eyes even more than their eyeballs. Further, the expensive owl which only has two empty eye holes and ridiculous eyeballs experiments for replicants' discrimination. On the other hand,  Rachael, as a replicant who is implanted memory without knowing her real status,  possesses two big, beautiful and storytelling eyes. In addition, When Roy at the end of his life, his sorrowful tears from his eyes in the rain. 

There are multiple versions of the end, whether Deckard is replicant or not. I would like to share some of my personal thoughts at here. Firstly, I have read a book written by Haruki Murakami, unicorn in his book is a typical symbol of freedom and goodliness, so I think Deckard's dream also tells us he is looking for his happiness and his love.  Secondly,abnormal Roy saves Deckard at the last second and he is full of sadness to express his last memory and feeling,  helping audience jump out of action thriller to realize that even a replicant also could have two paradoxical mental sides, so as a human, which is the best way for us to cope with our replicant's problem? Whether it is possible that replicants to be more human while human to be more inhuman?  Thirdly, memory is a magic thing. Because of memory, Roy hope he possess his real life; Because of memory, Rachael couldn't receive the truth of herself; Because of memory, Deckard finally finds out his own answer. Even though a person cannot forget everything in his life is torturous, we still need to remember what memories we got from our past experience, and to remember the feelings when we retrieve our memories, our memories prove our existence and our existence is our condition for everything.

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