Auteur Signature Film Form 

• neon colours outside of his window
• Genre shifts – science fiction, film noir
• Strong directional low key lighting

New Hollywood Film Form 

• non-diegetic choir singing
• unicorn – high key lighting
• followed by close up of pictures – he thinks it is his family etc.
• minimal and wooden performance – replicant? wooden performance relates back to the replicant at the beginning
• piano – evokes memory in himself
• gun and whisky – noirish character
• unicorn is fantastical yet it’s the only “real” animal in the film
• only real nature (trees) in the film
• morally ambiguous/compromised
• cross fade – like a flashback
• picture is labelled
• the news paper on the TV type thing when he is searching is written in ideograms

Production Context 

• unicorn scene – another movie – legend test shot

Themes and motifs 

• theme of surveillance – search light
• piano
• character haunted by memories
• unicorn motif
• technological advancement and high tec  – fear of it
• existentialism theme

Representation 

• apartment is decorated with Eastern looking furniture and ornaments (e.g. Buddah head and bonzi tree)
• women represented as exotic (?)

Political Context 

• mise en scene – mix of cultures  – passed Cold War