Luke and Laura... that was straight up rape.

and a dangerous one.

Which he is especially since he is killing his own kind (my theory is that he was one of the six that was captured and reprogrammed to hunt the rest or just another replicant - the clues are throughout the movie). Like Rachel he is not sure he is a replicant, but he suspects it.


By the way I was uncomfortable with that scene as well. I recently watched Bladerunner with my 16 year old daughter. If they made the movie today, I think they would have left the scene out.


Check out Charlton Heston in Soylent Green. Pretty much the same thing. I remember seeing it as a kid and being disturbed by it then. Still am.

She resists, he gets physical. Anything we see after that is questionable - just because it seems like she submits because she wants it after his restraining her, it is a typical way of survival when being raped to pretend to go along with your rapist. It might stop him from doing worse things, like killing you. I defy anyone to use that as an excuse for rape. You might as well say that if you do what a mugger says when he puts a gun to your head is you agreeing to being mugged, and it shouldn't be counted as a mugging then.

As for the excuse that she is just a robot, well, she is a sentient, intelligent being with self-determination. Just because the police have the right to kill those androids who don't follow the rules, doesn't mean they are less sentient and without the right to determine what happens to their own bodies. That's the argument of slave owners. If she had been an alien with green skin, would that have made a difference in whether it is rape or not?

The fact that the voight-kampff test works at all implies that there is something different about replicate sentience at the least.

But I think the point of the movie is: technology has dehumanized everyone in the movie. Even the most sympathetic characters (Roy Batty, Sebastian) are moral monsters.

And Deckard, who is also a replicant, is just as bad as everyone else.

Just because I like pris as a character doesn't mean I don't understand that slapping a woman- android or not isn't a prelude to sexual assault. Not to mention tossing her around

At least pris kicked his Ass