here are my remaining questions:
- why did sean young cry so much?
- why did edward james olmos keep folding those weird little paper figures?
- were replicants evolving to have feelings?
- why were the replicants after j.f. sebastian?
- what happened at the end/where did they go?
- were those 4 the only replicants left? if not, where are all the other ones?
i have more, but i can't think of them all right now, nor do i think it's a good use of our blog space to post them all.
in the end, i think the movie merits another viewing, much like samamual said.
2 comments:
Rachael cried because she had just found out she was a replicant, meaning everything she "remembered" that was older than the last few years were all fabricated memories programmed into her. In essence, the life she knew was a lie.
Gaff (a.k.a. Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galactica) was doing that for symbolic effect. You may notice one is left at the end when Deckard and Rachael were leaving, letting Deckard know that Gaff knew about the two of them, but wasn't going to stop them.
Replicants always had feelings, but some were programmed for killing purposes so those feelings took a back door. Much like how you can't say a serial killer isn't really a human, they just have a differently functioning brain than the rest of us.
The replicants were after J.F. Sebastian because he was second in command in the creation of them. They were trying to get to the head honcho, but they had to have a way in, an J.F. was that. They wanted to stop their own destruction, and getting to their creator was their best chance of that. Plus, it was an excuse to see Daryl Hannah jump around in spandex, which is always a bonus.
Deckard and Rachael left to live a life of their own in hiding. Knowing that Rachael was a replicant (and, if you watch the final cut, you're supposed to assume Deckard is too), there would be authorities after them to "retire" them, meaning they couldn't go back to their old lives.
What I gather (and this could be wrong as I've only seen the film twice) is that all replicants are being sought after, and it's when they find them that they go after them to have them "retired". This wasn't supposed to be a story about the very last replicants, it was just a special one about new knowledge of the replicants (such as the fact that a replicant could not know s/he was one, as in the case of Rachael).
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