Click the image to see Mark Kermode's excellent documentary about the making of the film... unless you don't want to know, if Deckard is actually a replicant or not...
The book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K Dick - the basis of the film - has a lot more twists than the film (which is my all time favourite) and even that doesn't make it clear if he is or not. The film is bleak but the book is even more depressing and explores emotions to a greater extent than the film could.
I know the directors cut makes out like he is a replicant. But the way I always saw it in my head was that he was human but he had become what he hunted.
I felt like the blur between human and machine was so openly stated in the transformation of machine to human, as in the question that keeps arising what is it meant to be human. That the question has to be asked in the reverse...can human become machine? Having seen this now and learnt that Dick based this book on Nazi diaries I have to think I am right :)
I love this movie always have.
Also love the Ghost in the Shell movies which touch on much of the same subjects, in the reverse like I am imaging for Decker.
I am also trying to remember the book where the main character also a detective or some kind undergoes all these brain enhancements, eliminates hunger, pain, the need for sleep superior alertness and vision etc. and the big question about where a human becomes a machine also occurs.
Click the image to see Mark Kermode's excellent documentary about the making of the film... unless you don't want to know, if Deckard is actually a replicant or not...
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I'm watching it right now. I want to state that I never thought of Decker as a replicant. I think that would wreck all the conflict.
I just finished that show. hmmmm.
The book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K Dick - the basis of the film - has a lot more twists than the film (which is my all time favourite) and even that doesn't make it clear if he is or not. The film is bleak but the book is even more depressing and explores emotions to a greater extent than the film could.
Thats true, but at the same time, the book is already really dated where as the film is only slightly so, at least as far as the details go...
I know the directors cut makes out like he is a replicant. But the way I always saw it in my head was that he was human but he had become what he hunted.
I felt like the blur between human and machine was so openly stated in the transformation of machine to human, as in the question that keeps arising what is it meant to be human. That the question has to be asked in the reverse...can human become machine? Having seen this now and learnt that Dick based this book on Nazi diaries I have to think I am right :)
I love this movie always have.
Also love the Ghost in the Shell movies which touch on much of the same subjects, in the reverse like I am imaging for Decker.
I am also trying to remember the book where the main character also a detective or some kind undergoes all these brain enhancements, eliminates hunger, pain, the need for sleep superior alertness and vision etc. and the big question about where a human becomes a machine also occurs.
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