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“Blade Runner: Director’s Cut” is a science-fiction film set in the not too distant future, 2019. ... It is within this place that the film raises the central question – What is it that makes us human? What is it that distinguishes us from machines or objects that surround us? ... A specialist replicant-hunter (Blade Runner), Rick Deckard, is given the job of tracking down these escapees and killing them. ... We will learn as the film progresses that this test is used to distinguish ‘replicant’ from ‘human’. The theory being that replicants lack any empathetic attunement with others and so, by this, exhibit their difference from human beings. Even though human beings can also lack this empathetic relationship with others they still maintain their human status. Already we have the central theme being hinted at – how do we decide who is ‘human’?
For the replicants, particularly Roy Batty (leader of the escapees), there is an association between humanity and a long life. Their trip back to Earth was motivated by the desire for more life, to extend it until it matched that of a human being. Humans live much longer than replicants, so to be able to live longer means they will be more human. ... Their accession to human status is stopped by only the unwillingness and refusal of other human beings. They can fulfil all the criteria it takes to be human, but they cannot force an acknowledgement from those around them.
Approximate Word count = 1146
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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