Blade Runner Critic Quotations

'Blade Runner hold[s] up to us, a mirror, many of the essential features of the condition of postmodernity.' - Harvey

Blade Runner is a 'vision of the future that extrapolates contemporary trends to envision their possible consequences.' - Byer

'As a consequence, the film falls in with the doom-and-gloom-bell-ringers of the early 1980's who were... reacting to the excessive optimism of 'deterministic futurology.' - McGuigan

'The superficial does not necessarily represent a decline into meaninglessness or valueless in culture.' - McRobbie

'retreat[ing] from the implications of its radical critique into filmic clichés and individualist solutions' - Instrell

'a radical structural analysis of the city can only acquire social force if it is embodied in an alternative experiential vision - in this case, of the huge Los Angeles Third World whose children will be the Los Angeles of the next millennium.' - Davis