How “Reality” can become a problem
“Reality” between human and replicant becomes a problem since the Tyrell Corporation in the movie Blade Runner had created the robots, called replicants. As replicants had developed emotion, and they looked exactly the same as humans, people will start suspicious about who is a real human and who is fake. In that case, people will not believe other people around them and therefore the world will not be peaceful to live. The gap between illusion and reality is remarkably minute in the movie. Take an example of a new kind of replicant, Rachel. Once the Tyrell Corporation implants predisposed memories to Rachel, she believes she is human all the way through, until Deckard tells her that she has been implanted with predisposed memories. They're somebody else's whose Tyrell's niece's life of memories. In this kind of way the replicants can believe their memories have been implanted and accept they are not human? Does memory make a robot become a real human? Probably not. Because of that, no matter human or relipcants are aiming to find out who are they and how long could they alive. Since that, people starting suspicious to each other. Finally, it will truly become a disaster between human and replicants and even lose their minds. No matter in the movie or real world, I believe that the four years lives is not enough for us to alive, and this can be a possible reason to cause replicants started resist human. One of the traffic jams like this had availably demonstrated by the movie.
Right or wrong
Replicants could be possibly created to benefit humans but also be harmful to the society. This means people are difficult to judge right or wrong by human try to be a creator and exceed the “God”. Since the replicants had accepted in their society and then been killed, people started to ask themselves a question “was creating those replicants benefiting or destroying the society?” Considering the movie, there are so many inhuman jobs available in the world which humans really don’t want to take. Therefore, replicants had been created for replacing humans in doing those jobs. Thus, the world will be perfect and humans are able to enjoy their lives. However, for safety reasons, human had set up many tests and rules to control the replicants and hence only gave them four years lives. Because of that, the consequence finally emerged that replicants who used to benefit the world started to feel it is not fair for them to take all the inhuman jobs and also a few years’ lives. Once they found out their tragedies, the test no longer existed to control them. Finally, they betrayed humans and refused to be killed. They were no longer benefiting society. Right or wrong is hard to judge in this case, humans vain hope replicants could benefit to their world but it only brings disaster at last. This is another consequence that the director wants us to consider by seeing the movie.
Conclusion
The main purpose of this film seems to ask readers, “should human become a creator of technology?” Although technology is able to benefit our society and our lives, sometimes “Playing God” would lead many serious consequences because of the technological advances. The movie Blade Runner tries to demonstrate to humans that “Once you think you have gained enough abilities to be a creator, you always have to consider all the possible consequences by making it, otherwise, there would not have any benefits only disaster and you will become a sinner.”
By writing the essay, people can see the movie Blade Runner is a successful film that able to demonstrate the controversy of technological advances. It leads the reader to cogitate about technology in an ethical way. It is perfectly suited the definition of Fred Pohl. “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
