Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Blade Runner

I really enjoyed Blade Runner! I am an incredibly detail oriented person though and one thing that really bothered me the whole time was the number of replicants that Deckard was supposed to be after. At the beginning of the film, it is explained that 6 replicants escaped initially. One was killed when trying to break into Tyrell Corporation, then eventually Zhora, Leon, Pris, and Roy were killed. Who was the 6th one that was supposed to be with them. They later find out about Rachael being a replicant, but she would technically be the 7th replicant involved in the film, not one of the original ones that escaped and came to earth illegally. Other than that, I feel as though this film was much more thoughtful and poignant than I thought it would be coming into it. There was a great deal of blurring the lines in terms of what it mean to be human, and I think that overall, that was the director's main intention. He wanted to beg the question to the audience as to whether being physically human was enough to make you truly human. As many have been pointing out, it almost seems as though the replicants were the most humane and compassionate in the film and it was the humans that were terrorizing the world in which they lived.

2 comments:

  1. That's a neat observation! Do you think maybe that was done on purpose? Possibly the director's hint to reveal that Deckard was indeed a replicant all along?

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  2. That is very interesting! But why would they send Deckard to kill them if he was one of them to be killed? If he is a replicant, did the police know?

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