The movie Blade Runner is very dear to my heart. It is a treatise on the nature of existence expanding on, and perhaps exceeding the reach of the Phillip K. Dick work which inspired it, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Perhaps I have missed out on some greater subtlety of PKD's work, but the point of DADoES pursues the definition of fake, while Blade Runner instead focuses on what is real. Where the replicants in the novel are sociopathic monsters who emulate emotions solely to gain traction against humans who may hunt them, the humans there rely on machines to dictate their own emotions for them. They dial for "energetic determination" or "six-hour self-accusatory depression." As much as the replicants are machines incapable of real emotion, humans are similarly reliant on a machine to simulate emotion for them. In contrast, the movie's central them is spelled out for us in Deckard's apartment, when Rachel is playing the piano. She professe...
I have a MILF comment but I'm restraining myself in the name of good taste. (Besides which, I think I'm the only guy who thinks Annette O'Toole on Smallville's hotter than Lois.)
ReplyDeleteOh, and thanks for getting that stuck in my head. :P
Actually, Annette O'Toole is teh total hawtness, or at least she was in 1980's remake of Cat People. I didn't know she was still working, but then I don't keep up with TV much.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if you're saying she's hotter than Kristen Kreuk, I would have to see that to believe it.
Glad to hear someone else seconding the O'Toole love. She's married to Michael McKean, y'know (they even got a shared Oscar nom a few years back for "Best Song").
ReplyDeleteAnyways, yeah - Clark's Mom Has Got It Going On (former Lana is now Ma Kent on a show with New Lana). New Lana Kristen Kreuk's constantly wounded/constipated expression and simpering acting style, on the other hand, has ruined whatever hotness she had for me forever. Alas. Sorry.