If you loved A Detective Story, try Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, and they both carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Animation / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Detective Story, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 is

You witness a power outage cascade across the West Coast. But the disruption is too precise, too total to be random. Watanabe draws on his anime expertise. The film lingers on the question of blame.

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