"Blade Runner"

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Analysis of Ridley Scott's 1982 film. Ways in which the film explores how technology redefines what it means to be human. Film's message about the meaning and worth of human beings. Line between robots, replicants and human beings. Significance of Deckard's role. Conflict between Deckard and the replicants he hunts.

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"The film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, explores the way technology redefines what it means to be human. The film, among other subjects, is about the struggle between humans and replicants, or machines which resemble humans so closely that humans cannot tell if they are human or machine. At a deeper level, the film examines what it means to be human, and, especially, what it means to be human in a world which advanced technology controls so much of human life. The argument here will be that, as pictured in the replicant/human puzzle in Blade Runner, technology can definitely affect the way human beings see themselves and one another. After all, if one cannot tell if another human being is really human or a chine, or cannot tell if he himself is really human or a machine, then technology has indeed completely redefined what it means to be human. At the ..."

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