There’s no overstating the impression Blade Runner had on future visions of science-fiction dystopias, if not more generally the neo-noir sheen that has turn out to be the default look of so many style films about glittering cityscapes of rain and shadow. The opening pictures paint 2019 Los Angeles as an unrecognizable place remodeled by technology (flying cars!) and omnipresent advertising, and the scene on the ground anticipates the confusion and danger of androids infiltrating society and overwhelming their masters. Through his eyes, the world of Blade Runner turns into a journey by way of the land of misfit toys, a spot people as soon as sought to control but have lost their grip on. The query of whether or not Deckard himself is a human or replicant is its personal philosophy course on the nature of man, however Scott’s modern manufacturing hints at a future the place we’ve ceded so much to technology that the reply to such a question will stop to matter. There’s a the Aristocracy that often comes with characters who overcome disabilities, to say nothing of the actors who play them, but one of the darkish pleasures of Matchstick Men is that overcome adversity …