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Is Hong Kong the cyberpunk world of Blade Runner? | South China Morning Post

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Nearly 40 years ago, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner hit the silver screen and changed cinema forever. The 1982 film imagined November 2019 as a dark, gritty, dystopian world dominated by inequality and technology, as it introduced a new generation of fans to cyberpunk culture. Bridging both science fiction and neo-noir…

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