Subject: [WSFA] Re: On rewatching Blade Runner
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 21:53:25 -0500

On 11/5/19 9:10 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> 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?
<snip>
In the lower, poorer world, it's always raining. In the world of the wealthy,
the sun is always shining. Metaphor....

Oh, on the other hand, IIRC, the plebs live in arcologies, and I think it's
supposed to result in rain....

  mark