patrick matte wrote:
quoted 5 lines I just saw Blade Runner director's cut for the X time... and once again, i'm> I just saw Blade Runner director's cut for the X time... and once again, i'm
> not too sure of the ending. I think Deckard is a replicant too, because he
> dreams of a unicorn and he finds a unicorn on the floor of his apartment. At
> the end, Gaff says "Its too bad she wont live, but then again who does" but
> I'm not sure what that means?
Gaff made the unicorn (during the movie you might notice he has a thing with
origami). Deckard may or may not be a replicant- that's the point the movie
is trying to make, what defines a human being? Life, intelligence, emotions?
The replicants are human- they are called androids, but they are biological,
gentically engineered and grown in a lab. They are considered not human and
expendable because of this and that they have no empathy for other beings,
no feeling. Which is likely a result of not having a childhood, memories.
The line "it's too bad she won't live long" refers to Sean Young's
character, who is a replicant but has memories artificially created in her
mind. Replicants are engineered to live for only 8 years I believe. If you
want to understand it somewhat better, read the book, Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. A strange situation where the movie and
the book are both equally as good, because, though the story is the same,
they are so different. In the book, Deckard even questions the likelihood of
himself being a replicant because he has no empathy for them, and finds
killing them so easy.
Hope all that helps...
-- forel
I delight in all manifestations of the terpsichorean muse.
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