Humanity In Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Humanity
Question of humanity continually appears throughout the film. What it takes to be human.
Humans in the film are human but is it humanity, to have compassion spirit and emotion.
Live in the darkness and day to day; the ones who never left to the off-world.
Replicants started to achieve humanity where they begin to feel emotion and have morality about them (Roy saving Deckard’s life on the rooftop)
Humans have lost what it means to be a good member of the human race, by addressing the question of humanity.
Contrast between human and replicant, of what a human is to be and what a replicant is to be.
Replicants go on the quest for ‘more life’; wanting to live longer.
Roy’s spiritual side is shown, where humans …show more content…
Roy shows despair upon the death of Zhora and Leon, and a lot with the death of Pris.
Roy feels betrayed when Tyrell refuses to give him extra life, even though he developed the ways to do it.
Capable of redemption– with the biblical allusion throughout.
Did Roy actually redeem himself?
“More human than human”, where the Tyrell Corporation lives by the motto by seeking to achieve replicants that are seen as more of the ideal humans than the current ones.
Replicants are more superior, in strength and agility, but also morally– even though not treated equally.
Replicants had a purpose, which was one of slavery.
Tyrell- a clear contrast to Roy. He lacks emotion, compassion and remorse. He cannot empathise with their plight. Can only ‘see’ their commercial value. Blind to their experience.
The corporate world left behind the primitive earth behind, where only perfect humans are able to leave.
Shelley proposes that humanity is fading from beneath our grip and there is still time – whereas Scott proposes that what has happened has happened and can’t be changed.
Scientific …show more content…
The absence of nature (artificial owl and snake, and fake Bonsai tree)
Shelley offers a sublime vision of nature as the Romantics offered this as a respite and alternate to the science, Scott offers a world of the consequence.
The future world has gone back to the 19th century with the breakdown of society.
Business - “commerce”. Science entrenched in consumerism and commercial society.
For Tyrell, replicants are just commerce. Given humanity of the replicants questions are raised about social priortiy (what are the needs of the society of the time, focus points of what we see humanity to be, and what is of importance to society) and moral obligations.
The dystopia is a vision of a world where intellect has gone too far.
Like Shelley, Scott questions the cost of testing boundaries of science and the ethical and moral issues associated with this.
Suggestion that this is a world worth avoiding.
Science has created the world, and sadly, has destroyed it too.
Many advancements. However, there is still poverty, overcrowding, ill treatment,
Humanity
Question of humanity continually appears throughout the film. What it takes to be human.
Humans in the film are human but is it humanity, to have compassion spirit and emotion.
Live in the darkness and day to day; the ones who never left to the off-world.
Replicants started to achieve humanity where they begin to feel emotion and have morality about them (Roy saving Deckard’s life on the rooftop)
Humans have lost what it means to be a good member of the human race, by addressing the question of humanity.
Contrast between human and replicant, of what a human is to be and what a replicant is to be.
Replicants go on the quest for ‘more life’; wanting to live longer.
Roy’s spiritual side is shown, where humans …show more content…
Roy shows despair upon the death of Zhora and Leon, and a lot with the death of Pris.
Roy feels betrayed when Tyrell refuses to give him extra life, even though he developed the ways to do it.
Capable of redemption– with the biblical allusion throughout.
Did Roy actually redeem himself?
“More human than human”, where the Tyrell Corporation lives by the motto by seeking to achieve replicants that are seen as more of the ideal humans than the current ones.
Replicants are more superior, in strength and agility, but also morally– even though not treated equally.
Replicants had a purpose, which was one of slavery.
Tyrell- a clear contrast to Roy. He lacks emotion, compassion and remorse. He cannot empathise with their plight. Can only ‘see’ their commercial value. Blind to their experience.
The corporate world left behind the primitive earth behind, where only perfect humans are able to leave.
Shelley proposes that humanity is fading from beneath our grip and there is still time – whereas Scott proposes that what has happened has happened and can’t be changed.
Scientific …show more content…
The absence of nature (artificial owl and snake, and fake Bonsai tree)
Shelley offers a sublime vision of nature as the Romantics offered this as a respite and alternate to the science, Scott offers a world of the consequence.
The future world has gone back to the 19th century with the breakdown of society.
Business - “commerce”. Science entrenched in consumerism and commercial society.
For Tyrell, replicants are just commerce. Given humanity of the replicants questions are raised about social priortiy (what are the needs of the society of the time, focus points of what we see humanity to be, and what is of importance to society) and moral obligations.
The dystopia is a vision of a world where intellect has gone too far.
Like Shelley, Scott questions the cost of testing boundaries of science and the ethical and moral issues associated with this.
Suggestion that this is a world worth avoiding.
Science has created the world, and sadly, has destroyed it too.
Many advancements. However, there is still poverty, overcrowding, ill treatment,