
This is a short clip from the opening of Blade Runner (1982). It is slow paced and atmospheric just like the whole movie it is from. Here we see the flames from oil refineries lightning up the night sky in the foreground of this dystopian future vision of Los Angeles.
Then there's a bolt of lightning and some flying vehicles over this smog-ridden megacity and then the close-up of an ice-blue replicant eye with blazing flames reflecting in it: An eye that has "seen things you people wouldn't believe."
The pyramids of The Tyrell Corporation, a manufacturer of replicants, gives an ancient Egyptian vibe to this futuristic scene. Dr. Elon Tyrell runs this company like some mighty Pharao.
A gang of replicants have escaped from slave labor in an off-world colony. A Voight-Kampff test of one of these replicants, Leon, will soon take place in one of these buildings. The rest of the movie plot is largely a cat and mouse chase with these replicants and law enforcement.
Thoughts about this scene and about this movie? I guess that Blade Runner is not fully cyberpunk, as computers are missing from it, but its aesthetics and its decadent merge of high-tech and low-life in a dystopian future world have been influential for the genre.