Feeling loneliness in a city of lights

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In both the book Neuromancer and the movie Blade Runner, the setting where all of the story takes place are very similar in ways. They are both very monumental works in the Cyberpunk genre, and so have very similar themes. In both works, the story takes place in a big dystopian city. In one of the first iconic shots in the movie Blade Runner, the futuristic city of 2019 Los Angeles is shown. There are huge towers and lights everywhere, giant screens with ads and flying cars. The streets are filled with people who are not as high tech as the towers around them, and everything is not as beautiful and bright as it seems.

In Neuromancer’s Chiba, it is a very similar place. Chiba and its sub city called Night City, is a huge place in Japan filled with new technology and many people from different cultures. Again, it is described with a lot of flashing lights and colors, but the people itself are trying their hardest to make a name for themselves. In Neuromancer’s world of technological innovation, the people living in it are modifying themselves or choosing to live in the shadows.

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