Bladerunner

        Many ideas in Bladerunner didn’t make sense. Because the story was written in the 1990s, many ideas seem unbelievable due to the prediction errors. With all that put aside, I think the story did a fantastic job in predicting what may happen to humans. Humans’ most prized trait is the abundance in curiosity; it is also the most dangerous enemy.  Humans will continuously strive to better their lives and there is no force that will be able to destroy such an idea except the inventions itself.  In the movie, replicants are the human invention.  The makers’ flaw in making the replicants is that there was no system to shut them down once they were made.  They had to be terminated by force.  In reality, if such a thing happened, there would be some system that would power the replicants “off” if they got out of hand.  In the movie, the situation got out of hand once replicants began to seek their makers.  They began to plan ways to meet their creator, only to kill him with no information gained.

        The end of the movie is the most interesting.  The idea that humans’ invention may have higher morals than humans themselves is exemplified; Roy saves Deckard. Roy understands the value of life more than Deckard. Deckard’s only plan is to kill all the replicants that infiltrated Earth.  Roy simply wanted to find his creator and try to live a longer life. Although he killed his creator, looking back, it doesn’t seem like he wasn’t the antagonist.  The humans were the “bad guys.”  Roy understands the value of life. He says that Life is like “tears in the rain.” A teardrop seems so unique compared to the rain, but when looked from the nature’s point of view, it is only just another liquid-drop. Roy understands that life is quick and drifts away quickly. He saves Deckard because life is so precious to just waste.