I have just got back from seeing Blade Runner. This ‘director’s cut’ has been around for a while but I have never seen it. Its also the first time I have seen it on a big screen with decent sound (music is by 80s icon Vangelis and at times I imagined it turning into the theme from Chariots of Fire. Luckily it didn’t. Having seen so much of Harrison’s Ford’s laid back acting style in other films I took more notice of beautiful replicant Sean Young. What’s fantastic about cinema is that the screen is so big so that ultra closeups of replicant Rachel undoing her hair, for example, and her highly produced lips are breathtaking and intimate and of course I couldn’t help falling in love with her. It would be impossible not to. She was so beautiful and so vulnerable and this is clearly what Ford’s character, Deckard, is drawn to. Now, there is the debate about whether Ford is actually a replicant himself, a suggestion which I don’t like for some reason as it spoils the intense and central ambiguity about a human falling in love with a non-human, but apparently director Ridley Scott has acknowledged that it is plausible – for a couple of very subtle plot reasons. Check here from 7 years ago or here.