From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] On rewatching Blade Runner
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 21:10:34 -0500 (EST)

My brother and I rewatched Blade Runner last weekend, since that movie
is set in November 2019.

The first scene shows lots of fires in California.  So far, pretty
accurate.  But it also shows that the power is on in that state.
Is real life actually more dystopian than that movie?

Perhaps not, since the movie also shows ubiquitous smoking.  For all
2019's faults, at least we got rid of that.  Also, we have flat screen
TVs, which the movie's 2019 does not.

Oddly, it shows nearly constant rain.  Is November California's wet
season or its dry season?  If the former, why are there lots of fires
in real life and in the movie?  If the latter, what's with all the
rain the the film?

There are no cell phones and no Internet, but they do have video pay
phones, flying cars, offworld colonies, and replicants.  You may be
killed by a replicant, or by a cop mistaking you for a replicant.