Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Blade Runner

The future can hold many great surprises and inventions that were not present during the past decades, but as well as being remarkable--the future can be a potentially dangerous place. In the science-fiction film "Blade Runner", the future of Los Angeles is told in the year 2019 from the perspective of a man named Decker. Decker has an occupation as a blade runner and blade runners are people that hunt down and put an end to Replicants. Replicants are Artificial Intelligence that have the physical form of a human but do not portray empathy. Decker is sent on a mission to kill off four replicants who have killed human beings on Earth and are beginning to rebel against their makers. In the end of the movie Decker wants to run off with another replicant that he fell in love with during his mission, but in reality they may not be so distinct from each other given that Rachel (the girl he falls in love with) has no real memory of her childhood. In the plot, it never gives any information about Decker's childhood either and he instead remembers a spider story that Rachel also has implanted in her brain; this meaning that they have a memory of the same thing. We know that Rachel is surely a replicant signifying that Decker may also be a replicant in the disguise of a human. Also, he found a unicorn origami at the end of the film while he was escaping with Rachel away from potential Blade Runners who could be after them and gives off a little smile once he sees it up close. His police companion would make a lot of origami pieces at the scenes where replicants had killed another human. This is significant because Decker had a unicorn dream in the middle of the film and his companion named Gaff may have let it for Deckard to see so that Gaff could let Deckard know that he knew he was a replicant. Gaff knew about it all and he let Deckard get away with his replicant partner since they had helped the police defeat the real danger which were the other four replicants. Deckard and Rachel were no real threat to society, the government only benefitted from the good deeds that they did and Deckard's smile at the end was the moment of realization for him that he was also a replicant like Rachel.

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