Monday, January 12, 2009
Bladerunner
My favorite part of this movie is the questioning of ones empathy or compassion towards others. Throughout the movie Harrison Ford plays the part of a bounty hunter known as Bladerunner who hunts down replicants, artificial beings, that look and act like human beings but are built by humans many of them for heavy duty jobs as slave labor. This movie brings up the theme that as we become more technologically advanced we lose more empathy. The movie shows this by having humans ruthlessly hunt down replicants, who are built only to be slaves, that escape and become sentient. Throughout the movie it is seen that the replicants may have more emotion than humans do this is seen with Rachel when she is kissing Rick and with Roy when he chases Rick. However the humans like the scientists who made the replicants show little or no emotion the only one seen there is fear.
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Sam, you make a connection between empathy and emotion. While I see the replicants and demonstrating emotion, I can't recall of a situation where they demonstrate empathy. Can you think of any examples?
ReplyDeleteIt took me a while to find it but when Roy saves Rick from falling off the building he is showing empathy that he won't kill him just like when a human has the ability to kill a bug but doesn't because he has no reason to. Roy realizes at the end that there is no point in killing Rick despite everything he has done to them.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Roy realizes (or knew all along) that Deckhard was a replicant, so he does not want to "kill" a similar being.
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