Blade Runner: Indepth Esoteric Analysis
Jay’s Analysis
In Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, we are presented with a prescient, dystopian future based on Phillip K. Dick’s novella, “Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep?” We will see that this film is full of not only accurate predictions of the future’s general landscape, but is also suffused with occult imagery and deep symbolic themes, as well as raising crucial moral and social issues. As I will argue, the film operates on several levels: as the immediate story itself, the predictive future level with social critiques, the level of covert operations and mind control, and the deepest level, that of myths, archetypes, and alchemical occult initiatory transformation. All these levels must be integrated to grasp the full import of the film as Ridley Scott conveys it. The deepest level is what holds the other levels together in coherence and meaning.
As the film begins, the viewer is shown the 2020 landscape of Los Angeles, and then an eye viewing the landscape. The eye represents the viewer, and just as I explained in my analysis of Eyes Wide Shut, the viewing of the film itself will constitute an initiatory experience. The viewer is going to be shown the elite plan, yet the eyes of most will remain shut. For the masses, there is no ability to make deeper level connections and associations between ideas, symbols and archetypes. For the viewer who has eyes to see, they are seeing the future itself, as well as the worldview of the ruling class. In fact, Blade Runner ranks with Eyes Wide Shut as one of the most explicit revelations of the method of the ruling oligarchs. My interpretation of this is confirmed by the fact that the film doesn’t show us whose eye we see. In fact, the reflection in the eye shows the scene the viewer just saw of the L.A. cityscape.
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July 4th, 2012 at 2:13 am
Just a couple of things:
1) It is not an “inability” that inhibits most people from seeing esoteric symbolism, it is lack of awareness. Using “inability” suggests that there is some sort of innate defect preventing people from seeing these things. Before the internet and getting confirmation and education from many, many others, I was not able to see these things either. Now, I see so much symbolism it pops out at me to such an extent, often times I can’t even convince your run-of-the-mill Ron Paul conspiracy guy of what I see.
2) A good case in point is initiatory movies. I believe there are a lot more movies made that are intended to brainwash, manipulate or even provide the population with simulated, trauma-induced mind control experiences. I think many of the movies of the 1970s, though praised for being “realist,” were actually intended to manipulate the masses into a sort of bi-polar state.
And I also have a hard time explaining to people who supposedly can see these things, that many of the movies they consider “friendly” exposures of the esoteric agenda are, in fact, the opposite. I consider “The Matrix” and “V” of this type. I also consider “The Shining” and “Dr. Strangelove” of this type as well.