Escatologia e finitude em Blade Runner (1968-1982): percepções do tempo na contemporaneidade

Abstract

Representations of urban futuristic subject in respect to science fiction narrative genre constitutes the subject of the current study, which is going to be used both for the movie Blade Runner, from 1982, directed by Ridley Scott, and inspired by the book, that shall also serve as a source, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", from 1968, the American writer Philip K. Dick. Having as its central axis articulation theme the research, ways of perception in contemporaneity time, it examines the maintainance of the ancient conception of the eschatological time, updated through the fictional language. From the representation of a scenario of the urban and human decay, it is searched also the theme of finite nature in the time being. To do so, as important as the highlighted elements of the futuristic setting, are the characters of the plot, well known as replicants, androids that metaphorize the condition of accelerated life, driven by the speed due to being pre-programmed with a due date of only four purposely reduced years as well as androids hunters, denominated as blade runners, taking into account the literal translation, they are those who run on the blade. The aim is to introduce to the reader an overview of some characteristical features of this life "the life that runs on the blade" in the major contemporary home cities, questioning a fictional representation on the historical perspective