Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Blade Runner
I find it interesting how the major theme in Blade Runner is about not defining the other and not accepting notions inherently given to you, and how that is reflected contextually. There is a definite bias felt against the replicants by the humans. They are seen as inferior because they are perceived to be lacking in genuine emotional depth. So they are treated like slaves, and dealt with with pretty severe animosity by most everyone. It seems that because it was decided that it was a bad idea to have replicants among the humans in society, comprehension of these robots is never even thought of to be a valid endeavor. The humans, essentially the creators, hold an attitude wherein they know anything and everything about their creations. This turns out not to be the case at all. The preconceived notion that these replicants lack empathy and emotion turns out to be false. And although this is an established theme in the film, its interesting contextually how the humans are not even fully aware of their creations. Having said this, I realize that not everyone in society could know this, and aside from their actual creator it is hard to fully comprehend, however, if you (society) are going to take such a stance of superiority against (and in contrast with) beings other than you, then there absolutely should be an effort to make up your own mind about those whom you are treating so poorly. Especially since the whole notion of superiority could go hand-in-hand with a sense of ownership and creator-ship. I guess I'm now just playing into the already-established theme but my point is this: It's interesting how we as humans could create something without realizing the full potential of it. We assume as if we have complete and utter control of our creations, and this movie challenges that.
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