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Hej, OG, u're right about heart and soul and "I'm not yet an analytical robot, devoid of that awe inspired feeling you get when you gaze at a movie screen". i agree with u and that, but not that Ridley Scott cannot move heart and soul. don't forget, if u don't wanna be coldly scientific, that art, movies too of course, is a matter of tastes. so, my taste, my chemistry, makes me feel an enormous amount of sensations and feelings watching Blade Runner. if someone doesn't feel it, it doesn't make him a dumb "youngstah", but probably someone i couldn't talk to for more than 10 minutes without seeing there's no point since we don't have anything to share, emotionally at least. doesn't have anything to do with others' opinion's respect. and yes, matter of tastes too, what i ffuucckkkking have the right to feel more is sadness, dark dark dark despair, cuz that's me, sshhhiittt! (notice, repeat characters and the program doesn't recognize them and cannot censorship them... hehe) and it will ALWAYS be SUPERIOR for ME (i don't speak for the whole of humanity) than entertainment. well, that's my kind of entertainment, damn it! happy blahblah culture is nothing appealing to me, and even intellectually, if one thinks two seconds, it's even appalling.
u say: "Both films deal with a prosthesis of humanity, not the real thing. Life in either film revolve around an increasing lack of heart and soul." well look around u! look at life in big cities and anonymity and u can die in the subway or get raped and nobody's gonna move his (always fatter (oh my! i'm being politically incorrect cuz smoking is bad but fat is low-carb and it's good)) ass to help you, if that'S not an increasing lack of heart and soul in today's society, reflected in such movies, truthfully, then i dunno what the ffuucckkk it is!