Blade Runner-Melissa Faller

The film Blade Runner is a scientific film that takes place in a world that is not the world today. The world consists of all of the humans—except the outcasts leaving earth and living in outer space. The world is gloomy and filled with trash. There is hardly any light and technology is extremely advanced. Along with the outcasts left on the earth there are also replicates. These replicates of people that look and act like real humans. They have been trained to have special abilities and are subhuman. In the film the replicates are being chased down by Harrison Ford who plays, Deckard a replicate hunter. He is on a mission to kill four different replicates and to remove them from society. Towards the end of Deckard’s hunt he is on the chase to kill Roy a replicate. Roy is one of the last surviving replicates and Deckard is having a hard time trying to kill him. Roy is especially angry because Deckard has successfully killed his friend and lover replicate. One specific scene that I felt was interesting is when Roy had Deckard hanging from the edge of the building. He was so close to having Deckard killed, but instead of killing Deckard he picked him up and put Deckard on the building. It was almost as if he was showing a sign of love. It was as if Roy was looking past their differences and the killing of his friend. When Roy places Deckard back on the roof his time is up and he dies. When Roy dies a dove flies from him. I feel that this dove is a representation of Roy’s spirit. This is interesting because Roy is not supposed to be a real person, however he has a spirit and at the very last moment he shows emotion towards Deckard. Most humans that were put in this similar situation would have acted out of anger and killed Deckard, but Roy was able to reason and respond with an emotion that was beyond human emotion. It seemed that his emotion was almost God like.