5/26/2023 0 Comments Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick![]() ![]() Dick stories that began 21 years ago with Blade Runner. Paycheck, directed by John Woo and set to open Christmas Day, is the latest in a run of films based on Philip K. ![]() Can the senses be trusted? Are memories real? Is anything real? Dick liked nothing better than to toy with the fundamentals of human existence, reality chief among them, so what better for the movie than a bullet that may or may not be tearing through the main character's flesh? Like other Dick protagonists – Tom Cruise in Minority Report, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall, Harrison Ford in Blade Runner– Affleck finds himself struggling for equilibrium in a world where even the most elemental questions are almost impossible to answer. ![]() ![]() Or does it? Though the image recurs throughout the film, it's hard to tell whether it's actually happening or not. Spiraling through the air in superslow motion, it pierces his chest in a plume of red and bores into his heart. A crack engineer named Jennings, played by Ben Affleck, finds himself in a jam, as Dick's characters invariably do, and the bullet is headed his way. The unbilled costar of Paycheck, the latest Hollywood thriller from the battered typewriter of Philip K. ![]()
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