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brooklynite

(94,302 posts) Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:29 AM Sep 2020

BLADERUNNER: 2020

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BLADERUNNER: 2020 (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2020 OP

Wow.... Pachamama Sep 2020 #1

Unreal and scary. Polly Hennessey Sep 2020 #2

The comparison has occurred to me many times... Ron Obvious Sep 2020 #3

If Trump sat the Voight-Kampff test, he'd fail muriel_volestrangler Sep 2020 #4

Pachamama

(16,884 posts)

1. Wow....

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:36 AM

Sep 2020

So eerie...

Polly Hennessey

(6,784 posts)

2. Unreal and scary.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:52 AM

Sep 2020

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

3. The comparison has occurred to me many times...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:44 PM

Sep 2020

I'm in Seattle, not San Francisco, but the comparison really struck me in the summers of 2017 en 2018 as well.

It's one of my favourite films, but it's always been a nightmare vision of the future for me.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,263 posts)

4. If Trump sat the Voight-Kampff test, he'd fail

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 02:23 PM

Sep 2020

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/are-you-a-replicant/

No empathy. Maybe he could pay a normal human to take it for him. (I reckon he gets 82% chance of being a replicant on that test)

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