Ed Symkus
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You are going to love this or you are going to turn it off, 15 minutes in, after or during a spell of head scratching. There will be no middle ground.
To sum up, it’s an unusual movie.
But, let’s jump to the beginning. A narrator (Thomas Sadoski) is talking about the time someone was in his (the narrator’s) attic with his (the narrator’s) Saint Bernard, when the dog fell through the floor and landed on the kitchen table. And there, onscreen, standing in the kitchen is a man known only as The Kid (Jake Robinson). The dog is next to him, and he’s fine.
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pon its initial release in 1982, Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” was a critical and commercial disappointment. Over time the film amassed a devoted cult following, and in 1992, upon the release of Scott’s director’s cut, Times film critic Kenneth Turan wrote a deep dive into the making of the film and its rediscovery. Twenty-five years later a sequel, “Blade Runner 2049,” will open in theaters nationwide. This article was originally published on Sept. 13, 1992.
Elegant cars gliding through a decaying infrastructure, the dispossessed huddling in the shadow of bright skyscrapers, the sensation of a dystopian, multiethnic civilization that has managed to simultaneously advance and regress these are scenes of modern urban decline, and if they make you think of a movie, and chances are they will, it can have only one name: “Blade Runner.”
Ever get the sinking feeling when someone you meet comes across as unnatural? Something about their personality and behavior just seems . off? There’s nothing obviously wrong about them, of course. All of your suspicions are about innocuous details, but it’s enough to make you want to avoid them. In Thomas F. Mazziotti’s “The Mimic,” those suspicions are the impetus for a man known as “the Narrator” (Thomas Sadoski) to launch a full investigation into the new neighbor next door who he dubs “the Kid” (Jake Robinson). Threatened by the Kid’s intrusion into his world, including a small community newspaper, he suspects him of being a sociopath, which throws them both into a series of ridiculous events. Things get further complicated when the widowed Narrator starts to have feelings for the Kid’s (mostly unseen throughout the film) wife.
Ed Symkus
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You are going to love this or you are going to turn it off, 15 minutes in, after or during a spell of head scratching. There will be no middle ground.
To sum up, it’s an unusual movie.
But, let’s jump to the beginning. A narrator (Thomas Sadoski) is talking about the time someone was in his (the narrator’s) attic with his (the narrator’s) Saint Bernard, when the dog fell through the floor and landed on the kitchen table. And there, onscreen, standing in the kitchen is a man known only as The Kid (Jake Robinson). The dog is next to him, and he’s fine.