Straight doesn't seem to be good enough!
Puts 2049 to shame. Even at its most exploitative (Rachael's rape, Pris's and Zorah's deaths), this is wild, weird, and endlessly inventive. Hasidic Jews, Hare Krishnas, Victorian dolls and 40s Americana are essential to the film's visual texture: they cannot be jettisoned while preserving its character. Blade Runner is operatic, it's gothic, it's erotic, it's noir and horror and SF and more, swapping deliriously between registers on a dime. It is Roy Batty,…
