Living in Noir Times: Blade Runner and Near Future Dystopia Are Here to Stay
"We're not computers, Sebastian, we're physical." - Rutger Hauer, Blade Rutger I write this blog every Sunday night. As I transition out of the weekend and prepare for the week ahead, seems like whatever time of day I sit down to write this, the news hits. And this entire season the news has been hitting hard. We all know what happened today. And regarding that, I don't have any words. I've been thinking a lot about what's happening right now and I've come to the conclusion that, once again, we are living in Noir Times. In The Film Experience , the authors point out, "Like the ending in Chinatown , many of the variations in these crime film formulas may be the product of changing times. With the Great Depression, Prohibition and urban crowding and unrest, the crime film of the 1930s acted out social instabilities through the marginal success of a marginal detective, like Sam Spade and others. In the 1970s, after the government corrupti...