Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction-thrill film by Ridley Scott. The
movie is about replicants, genetically modified human-like robots, and how they
hunger for life. Deckard, the main character, has a mission to hunt and kill
all the remaining replicants who have evil plans of wanting to acquire more
life, if not immortality. His task was not as easy as it seems because he would
fight against robots with special abilities that normal people do not have. In
the end, Roy, a replicant, resents that all his memories for the past four
years will be put to waste because he is programmed to shut down in a few
moment. Deckard succeeds in his mission.
Just like the issues on the other films like Frankenstein and Futurama,
Blade Runner tackles and elaborates the potential disadvantages of
technological advancements that mankind can achieve.
Tyrell Corporation, the organization responsible in producing the
replicants set the lives of their creations to only four years. Within that
four years, the replicants were able to wake up from their reality that they
were programmed to die soon. The robots wanted to gain life in order for their
memories to be saved and not put into waste. They start a revolution against
their makers for giving them such a small amount of life span.
As seen in the film, the robots eventually served as a threat to the
human race, as opposed to their original purpose of being an aid to people. The
possibility of the innovations to be a threat to humans are countless and we
are challenged to think thoroughly first and analyze the probable outcomes so
that we can be prepared for what might.
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