Blog 8

I was really glad that this reading was an assigned reading. I felt that it answered many questions that I had had about the movie Blade Runner. Technophobia expressed the relationship that exists between liberty and equality. My first thought of both concepts is that you could not have one without the other but this is not the case. Equality is brought to an extreme in many 1970 and 1980’s movies by cloning and machines, while liberty is the escape into freedom.
I felt that Blade Runner was a contradiction to the examples expressed earlier because it had the escape into nature but also that escape was with a machine. I also felt that with the machines in Blade Runner the viewer had much more sympathy for than the machines in the other examples.
Something else that I was grateful that the author did was express the scene where Decker basically rapes Rachael. I was very confused with this scene in the movie but after reading this passage it made a little more sense. “It can be read as depicting the construction of female subjectivity under patriarchy as something pliant and submissive as well as a threatening and castratory.”(63).
I really loves the style of writing the author used to express such an abstract concept. It was very easy to follow and I felt that it dragged the reader in. Also the examples the author uses are expressed in such detail that the reader does not have to have prior knowledge of them.