Blade Runner is another movie that we have seen that I didn't really like. I feel like I didn't enjoy it because, it was too boring, for lack of better words. It had a great story and plot but, just the way it was executed on screen didn't strike a chord with me. It seemed as though all the action scenes were very poorly done and there were large spaces with nothing happening, just dialogue that seemed very abstract.
One of the themes that I'd like to discuss from the film is the guiding question that we had before and after we watched it: What makes us human? What I said during the discussion I pointed out that we as humans (or animals) can reproduce. As of yet we have not seen a robot, android, computer, monster etc, that no matter how [emotionally] advanced, that has been able to reproduce. Reproduction may seem simple but, it may be one of the few things if not the only that separates us from the more advanced beings that have been created in the sci fi films we've seen so far.
The genetic code that's passed on in [sexual] reproduction, I feel, simply cannot not be done artificially. Well, maybe it can be done artificially but, not at the will of the artificial being in question.
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I agree with what you are saying how you don't like this movie but I actually thought it was an ok movie
ReplyDeleteYour observation about reproduction is an important one. I wonder: If computers could write programs (which they might one day, if not already) would that be a type of reproduction? If so, what consequences would there be?
ReplyDeleteI agree that it just didn't feel like a science fiction film at all. It felt more like a typical detective thriller that just happened to be set in the future. The theme of what makes us human wasn't really present in the film in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm the only one that thought it was great. Anyway, I disagree with the whole, reproducing makes us human or living. Does that mean mules aren't living creatures? They can't reproduce but they act like any other horse or donkey. How about people with down syndrome? Are they not living since they can't reproduce? Not human? They're perfectly capable of human ideas, thoughts, emotions and reactions. I think it's something much deeper and unknown that makes us human. Something that we don't know yet, and that's our purpose.
ReplyDeletewell people with down syndrome are capable of reproduction, it's just that because of their mental circumstance(s) that they can't reproduce. They have the reproductive organs and all, it's just that they're never used. Suppose I go my entire life without reproducing, that doesn't mean I'm not human. I'm not saying reproduction is the ONLY thing that makes us human; it's just an important factor.
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