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1. Empathy
First, a mention of Empathy, which the film didn't take the time to go into detail:
"As long as one life experiences happiness, there is a hint of happiness in all other life experiences. But if any one life experiences pain, the other lives cannot cast off that shadow."
"The phenomenon of empathy exists only in human communities, whereas intelligence is more or less universal in all classes of animals. In social animals like humans, with empathy, the survival rate is significantly improved. But For a solitary creature like a spider, empathy is not only unhelpful, but may be detrimental to its survival, because it allows it to experience the desire for life of its trapped prey."
And this is what the original book emphasizes from beginning to end: Humans are not the same as androids. A android will never become a human. Because they are indifferent, because they do not know empathy (empathy), do not consider others, have no sympathy, and will only betray their companions and run away when they are in danger.
But in the movie, Lao Lei weakened the emotional difference between Replicants and humans:
1. Leon and Snake
Rick finds a hidden photo of Snake in Leon's room, and Leon returns to the hotel just to get back his "precious photos"; Snake was shot by Rick around the bar, and Leon happens to be nearby. Whether there is a subtle and special relationship between Leon and Snake Woman, we do not know, any conclusion will be mixed with our seemingly objective observations and ambiguous conjectures. But the angry Leon had no hesitation to find a blade runner who had been hunting him to settle accounts, but it was real.
Leon wants to avenge the person he likes, but is shot and killed by Rachel (model 7 replica) who is anxious to protect the person he likes. Although this scene is cliché, it is also quite touching. You must know that in the original book, Rachel has been deceiving Rick, subverting Rick's three views, and completely crushing his last straw. When I saw this, I immediately felt that the movie was really good. The movie made the world have true feelings and true love in the world.
2. Roy and Price
In addition to showing Roy's grief after Price's death, the relationship between the two also has a small detail: Roy came to JF's house to reconcile with Price, telling the latter that there were only the two of them left, and Price was terrified. : "We are too stupid, we will die." Roy, who was still full of sadness and grievance just now, immediately smiled at his girlfriend: "No, we will not die." Then Prith also laughed. A very common scene, a boyfriend comforting his girlfriend, we can see it in our daily life.
Lao Lei's clones may behave strangely, but they are full of emotions, just like us ordinary people.
2. Desire for survival
PKD has repeatedly described the mental state of the android (Android) when the disaster is imminent:
"Rick has seen androids often give up resistance like this in times of crisis. When stressed, the artificial life force within them seems to fail."
"The dark flames were pale, the life force was fading away from her, like many androids he'd seen before. Typical resignation. They just mechanically accept the impending destruction, and the real life— Life that evolved under the pressure of two billion years of survival - will never just accept its fate."
But in Ridley Scott's movie world, Replicants are always terrified, trembling and desperately crawling out of the abyss of death, just like us "real beings". I don't want to admit my fate. The passages chased in the building have a set of parallel time and space: on one side, Roy uses iron nails to pierce his palms, which are constantly curled up and gradually numb due to the approaching deadline of death, hoping to regain sobriety through pain. On the other side, Rick, who was running around, was trying to reset the finger that was bent by Roy. This group of shots shows two hands desperately reaching out in the death swamp, two living beings eager to continue to live.
story
Some people say that the film's portrayal of characters, society and values are much shallower than novels. The original novel can be summarized as how Rick hunted and killed androids one after another, and kept putting heavy shackles on his mind, gradually doubting his own humanity, almost collapsing, and finally being rescued. But literature and film are two different arts. For the film, I just want to see it as a solemn ceremony of separation. All the depression and rushing in front of them are to pave the way for Roy's monologue in the night sky of the cyberpunk world.
values
Characters and stories are nothing more than serving values. The values of "Electric Sheep": As entropy continues to increase, the world will become more and more chaotic and become a ruin. But those precious qualities are the unique brilliance of human beings. Fallout can alter our genetic makeup and make us disabled, but it cannot take away the warm humanity we were born with.
"Blade Runner" does not discuss the greatness of man, it explores the length of life and the horror of death. Ridley Scott didn't want to follow up with sci-fi after "Alien," for fear that audiences would stereotype themselves as sci-fi directors. But during the film selection, Ridley's brother died unfortunately, which touched him a lot, so he decided to make this film. That's why Roy keeps asking: "We are the same as you, but why do we only live four years." Terry's answer is: "Because you burn brighter than others, so you burn It will be shorter."
Many people thought the final monologue of Roy's death was beautiful, but I just felt a burst of sadness and helplessness. I've seen warships blazing beside Orion, I've seen C-rays shine in the darkness near Wai Shot, I've burned so brightly, but these moments will pass in time like tears in rain. This last verse is written for every life that will give up struggling under the scythe. I've seen soldiers come down, I've seen medieval snowfields, I've seen love and pain, I've seen the things you wouldn't believe...
But All of those things will be lost in time.
Like tears in the rain.
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