It’s my second week at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and it’s going better than last week, where all we did was read manuals on safety and WHMIS. Today, I got started in Micro planting all sorts of specimens: stools, throats, etc. Most people wouldn’t find that interesting but it was something. A start. A stepping stone to much cooler things.

so I rented Blade Runner the other day.

wikipedia.org

The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants, visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are used for dangerous and degrading work in Earth’s “off-world colonies”. After replicants became illegal on Earth, specialist police units — called “blade runners” — were trained to hunt down and “retire” (kill) escaped replicants on Earth. The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and a semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard (Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment.

I’ve been wanting to see this movie for 15 years. no jokes. I remember seeing trailers for this movie as a kid, I just never got around to seeing it. And my first impression is not that good. I was expecting soo much more. The protagonist, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), is too much of a…wimp. He had to be saved numerous times from danger by his own enemies! And the action is sub-par as well. The one thing I liked about the film is the vision of the future we’re presented with. It can actually happen. And in that sense, this film was way ahead of its own time.

Maybe I’ll give it a second watch…