BladeRunner

A little late on this, but it took me a while to get my blog set up... Better late than never, I guess.

Watching Blade Runner, every time a character came on screen it took a minute to decipher whether it was a replicant or a real human, which, once getting a fair way into the movie, felt like that was the point Ridley Scott and the writers were trying to make. It was like a 2 hour long neo-noire Turing test where the audience was the subject.

The end of the movie, right before Roy gives his infamous 'tears in rain' speech, there was one particular image that struck me. When he meets Deckard on the roof, in one hand he has a dove and in the other, his hand is pierced through the palm. With the dove being a symbol for peace and the spike through his hand alluding to Jesus on the cross, I wonder the movie was trying to suggest some relationship between sacrifice and peace.