Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Blade Runner & Johnny Mnemonic

This is a story that I like a lot. This has all the representation of all the elements of cyber punk it represents the future of what might be. This is a representation of what social life is now. The poor are poor and the rich are rich. Its a world of film noir in the future. Its a take on the future of that of a true reality not the world that many people have build in many story's, that there is no poverty and everything has been build clean and white a very sterile environment. One of the things I like most about the movie is the futuristic past if that makes any sense, the take on the future that still uses elements of the past. Like in the movie Blade Runner and also the story Johnny Mnemonic where everything has a future type tech to it but in many cases the story refurs to a large amount of slum like world. This may be the future but life still sucks for everyone. And the way things are described as being the norm and can be kind of lame, like this exert from Johnny Mnemonic this is a description of a person in the story  "like your standard tourist tech, in plastic zoris and a silly Hawaiian shirt printed with blowups of his firm's most popular microprocessor" what I love about this is that its uses simple speech just talking about how chessy this guy is but it described in a way that makes tech sound like this now gimmick, low class, touristy kind of feel. On a side note one of my favorite thing of Mnemonic is the Asian influences such as the how many of the environments are set to look and feel like modern Japan or a Tokyo of the future but mixed with New York

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