Bleak Visions: Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' Director's Cut

'As we watch Ridley Scott's depiction of life in Los Angeles in 2019, we need to keep in mind that the author, the two screeenwriters and the director, Ridley Scott, were all responding to the social, cultural and historical concerns of the 1960s and 1970s. Their bleak visioin of the future depicts the chaos which would result from the combined effect of nuclear disaster, ecological destruction and over-population.'