BLADE RUNNER
Blade Runner is a fiction film produced in the United Sates by Warner Bros and directed by Ridley Scott in 1982. It was an adaptation of the science fiction novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by the American writer Philip K. Dick in 1968. After watching the film, I have some details that make me think that replicants might be considered humans. I will give my personal point of view that justify it.
After Dr. Eldon Tyrell built up the Tyrell Corporation, he created the Nexus 6 also called “the replicants”. These replicants were a kind of robots with the same physical appearance, intelligence and emotions as human beings, but they were four times more agile and stronger than they were.
Some of the purposes that Dr. Eldon Tyrell had with his invention was to have modern slaves to be sent to other planets to do very difficult tasks, as
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This does not mean that they have the right to kill, but their strength is much more powerful than humans.
Dr. Eldon Tyrell with the help of other scientists should study how they can extend the replicants’ life with some genetic test and experiments in laboratories using the latest inventions. The only think that replicants wanted was to live longer and this produce a chaos in both groups – humans and replicants.
Having emotions as humans, they have feelings, they fall in love and want to start a relationship. As everybody knows, this is the beginning of any society. Also, another reason was that they wanted to have all the benefits that an employee had, for example a salary, social security and be considered as a citizen. Replicants should not be retired simply because they want to exist for longer than four years. The authorities should help them to look for a peaceful solution that could be a dialogue between replicants and Dr. Eldon