Blade Runner

Blade Runner was quite an interesting film. I actually really enjoyed it, especially considering that sci-fi is not exactly my favorite movie genre. However, the fact that there was a deeper meaning behind all the "high-tech" futuristic technology really caught my attention. I love how the film ultimately conveyed the question: what does it really mean to be human? No one person, race, culture can specifically define what it means to be human. If you ask a number of people what they believe being human means, you would probably get a variety of answers such as humans have feelings, their own ideas, a conscious, and so on and so forth. Yet, the fact that these answers are going to vary from person to person shows that beauty of being human which is individuality. Sure we all may have similar aspects, but we are all different in personality, expression, and emotion. So although these replicants were designed by "humans" the film showed that they were able to form feelings and emotions. An example of these emotions seen in the replicants would be when Rachael begins to cry after realizing that she is a replicant, when Batty mourns the death of Pris and saves Deckard from falling off the roof, and even when Deckard runs away with Rachael because they have fallen in love. Overall, I really enjoyed the film and I think it even instilled a little bit of the idiom: "Don't judge a book by its cover."