Originally, Blade Runner uses a dark and distant prediction of 2019 which seems impossible to happen to get viewers into the theaters, but today, given the impending arrival of year 2019, more and more viewers realize that some of the situations depict in the movie came true. For example, in the trailer, severe pollution and overpopulation have transformed Los Angeles into a depressing megacity. And regarding 2019 is only three years away, we consider that the situations of Los Angeles in 2019 will be no big difference compared with today’s in reality. With that, examining the fact of air pollution in Los Angeles today, we have to admit the truth of that prediction.
“Blade Runner” states the cultural meaning of clean air. “We are all under the same blue sky, so we shared same rights” is one of the most famous political idea put forward by Franklin in his own autobiography (223). All …show more content…
Today, nobody can understand what this ad. means but not for the people who experienced the “Los Angeles Smog” on 26th July, 1943. In 1943, in the middle of World War II, many years before the movie “Blade Runner” came to public, Los Angeles residents had already witnessed the dark and depressing sky with heavy smog just same like the movie. When residents found a thick fog that made peoples’ eyes sting and their noses run, “they believe the Japanese are attacking them with chemical warfare” according to Jess McNally (20). Later, all residents found out the fog was not from an outside attack, but from their own vehicles and factories. “This Smog take one thousand and four hundred lives in that specially day” said by Chip Jacobs, the author of book “Smog Town”. “Nobody can imagine in one day thousands of lives were killed by the air we breath” (37). In other words, air pollution can definitely directly take your life away, which is out of imagination for many
“Blade Runner” states the cultural meaning of clean air. “We are all under the same blue sky, so we shared same rights” is one of the most famous political idea put forward by Franklin in his own autobiography (223). All …show more content…
Today, nobody can understand what this ad. means but not for the people who experienced the “Los Angeles Smog” on 26th July, 1943. In 1943, in the middle of World War II, many years before the movie “Blade Runner” came to public, Los Angeles residents had already witnessed the dark and depressing sky with heavy smog just same like the movie. When residents found a thick fog that made peoples’ eyes sting and their noses run, “they believe the Japanese are attacking them with chemical warfare” according to Jess McNally (20). Later, all residents found out the fog was not from an outside attack, but from their own vehicles and factories. “This Smog take one thousand and four hundred lives in that specially day” said by Chip Jacobs, the author of book “Smog Town”. “Nobody can imagine in one day thousands of lives were killed by the air we breath” (37). In other words, air pollution can definitely directly take your life away, which is out of imagination for many