If there's a movie you can go back to over and over and have a different experience every time, it's Blade Runner. The Ridley Scott cyberpunk tech noir can be classified in so many different ways, but all I care about is that it's great. One of the reasons I got back to the movie so much is that there are a ton of different edits available of the movie. Today, I watched the Final Cut in 4K, and I decided now was as good a time as any to go over the ending of the movie Blade Runner and explain it all to you. Sound good? Let's dive in. Blade Runner PlotThe movie begins in a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019. We meet former police officer Rick Deckard, and his old colleague, Gaff, who likes to make paper origami-like cranes and unicorns. Deckard has come back to the LAPD to work on an enticing mission: He has to "retire" four replicants, bioengineered humans, who have escaped from an off-world colony and returned to Earth. Gaff thinks no one is as good at finding replicants as Deckard. Deckard's mission is to track down and retire the escaped replicants: Roy Batty, Leon Kowalski, Zhora, and Pris. When he finds them, he's supposed to eliminate them. The way to tell a replicant is to use the Voight-Kampff test, a psychological examination that reveals who is and is not a replicant since they look just like humans. These replicants, led by the charismatic...
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