Bladerunner

Research 2014
The future nior cult classic film “Blade Runner” -The Directors Cut can be interpreted through a variety of critical lenses including the Ecofeminest lens and the Marxist lens. In order to perceptively develop my own critical understanding of the film I decided to investigate the following hypothesis: “Blade Runner-DC is a film that conveys how a capitalist society negatively influences the relations of humans and nature.” To aid me in my investigation of my hypothesis I selected two critical texts, the first one – “The Flesh Curtain: The Future of Industrial Oppression in Blade Runner”- written by Paige Eggebrecht, takes a Marxist perspective on the film. The Marxist critical perspective focuses on the ways in which a text represents the allocation of power to different classes in society and the inequalities that result from this unjust distribution of power. A Marxist critic therefore sees these social, cultural, political and economic disparities as the products of the hierarchical society, shaped and dominated by capitalism. My second critical text – “An Ecofeminest Perspective” –written by Mary Jenkins, takes an Ecofeminest perspective on the film. Nature is personified as “Female” and the Patriarchy has relegated women and nature as subordinate to men. As women have been devalued in the film, consequently nature has also. The film reveals a futuristic society ravaged with pollution where the greed for economic capitalism is rife, overriding morality and the essential regard for the value of nature. Ridley heeds a crucial warning to us about the society we doomed to create in the future if we fail to correct and learn from our mistakes. Through both critical lenses, Marxist and Ecofeminest, it is prominently clear that a capitalist society negatively influences the relations of humans and nature as conveyed in BR-DC, thus proving my hypothesis.
The Critical text “Flesh Curtain: The Future of Industrial Oppression in Blade Runner”, written by...