A glimpse into 2019

Film Club screens Blade Runner for film series

REBECCA O'NEIL Reporter @RebeccaRoundup

More than 80 students and faculty gathered in the Great Hall on Thursday, May 10, to watch Blade Runner and discuss the classic’s multitudinous themes and current cultural relevance.

Cinema professor Ken Windrum, journalism professor Jeff Favre, psychology professor Chad Snow, as well as Pierce students Steve Lopez and Andrew Shaktah led a Q&A panel discussion with the audience, many of whom saw the the movie for the first time.

Favre said Blade Runner’s psychological and philosophical angles are timeless and beg the same questions now that they did when the movie first came out in 1982.

“It’s one of those things that remains relevant when it was written, when it came out and now. It becomes more and more relevant in time. Last night, my six year old asked, ‘What if we’re just dreaming this? What if someone is dreaming us?’ Favre said. “What’s reality and what does it matter if we’re all a simulation inside Elon Musk’s computer?”

Snow said the film’s juxtaposition of the characters’ memories— supposed man Rick Deckard and replicant robot Roy Batty—create a false idea of what the audience considers human.

“Human memory is largely inaccurate. Studies have shown you can plant false memories in people’s brains,” Snow said. “So saying you’re not human because your memories are fake— that’s problematic.”

Snow said it is possible that the replicants’ creators limited their innovation’s lifespan to four years because of their designs’ immeasurable and increasing capacity to feel.

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The Thursday concert series continues on May 17 with the second AMP student recital. The recital will be held at the Performing Arts Building Mainstage at 1p.m. The doors will open at 12:45 p.m.