Hunting Deckard Movie Essay

Proofs that Roy has earned his humanity
1. Roy is a replicant made exactly as a human being. He is better than humans, driven by love, desire, fear and unable to accept that life for him should be a short, illogical and limited by his creator. “Roy had much success in his search for his maker than we humans ever managed.” Roy feels his own emotions, he cried when Pris dies and feels angry for the death of the other replicants, killed by blade-runners.
2. Fear of death. During the scene where Roy accompanies Sebastian into Tyrell’s building, he expresses his disapproval for living a short lifespan of four years and demand for modification on himself so that he can live longer. Four years is not enough for Roy and this shows that he is afraid

At the end of the movie when Roy chases Deckard, the audience get the impression that Roy wants to hurt/murder Deckard for killing his alike (other replicants), he hurt Deckard, break his fingers, chases him and toys with him to make him experience the fear of living as a replicant. “Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s how it is to be a slave.” Similar to human beings who need to express their emotions either by words or gestures, Roy expresses his fear by hunting Deckard the same way he is chased by the blade runners to make Deckard feel the helplessness/ vulnerability he feels constantly. He was teaching Deckard through hard experiences what it is like to live on the run and fear for your life, and shows him how Deckard’s job had put others(replicants)

In the film, Gaff’s first line interprets to “you are the blade, blade runner”. There is no mention of/questions asked about Deckard’s life during the time between he was a cop and the event of the film. The only mention was a failed marriage early during the film.
8. Scene of the unicorn origami which is an interpretation that Deckard is a replicant.

Scenes of Eye-imagery
1. Eyes features prominently in the movie and the film opens with an all-seen eye beholding the world.
2. Deckard and the other blade runners use eye scanners to detect empathetic responses to determine who is and is not a replicant.
3. Roy, in his fight to expand his four years lifespan visits Chew, the man who designed his eyes and he says, “If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes.”
4. Replicants are reflective suggesting that eyes not only see but reveal. We see how Roy finally kills Tyrell, his maker by forcefully pushing his eyes into his skull using his thumbs.

What do Roy and Dr.Forry (The Giving Plague) have in common?
They are both combating to restore the humanity left in them or in the world. Both Roy Batty and Dr.Forry succumb to mortality at the end. The virus ALAS destroys Dr.Forry’s last trust in humanity and he accepts his death and Roy Batty embraces his mortality after having his hope to live longer shatter by his father and maker,