Blade Runner

Directors use various techniques to create a compelling and memorable motion picture film for the audience. In 1982`s Blade Runner, Ridley Scott portrays various themes of mortality, memory and identity through various film techniques such as editing, cinematography, and mise-en-scène.

The theme of morality can be shown throughout the film by the director’s use of editing, cinematography and mise-en-scène. The moral aspect here is creating these replicas in order to be sent off to another world and become slaves for humans with a limited time of four years before they are ‘retired’. In the beginning of the film, Scott uses an extreme close up of Roy’s hand balling up into a fist. This is used to show the replica’s constraint time and freedom. The surrounding is also very dark; darkness signifies anger, grief and death. The only thing in this scene is Roy’s hand, however upon closer inspection, one can see that Roy’s fingernail are black and dirty, signifying the hard labour that the replicas must endure while also raising the moral question of why are these replicas discriminated a...