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Shivering Jemmy

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6. It is not clear that replicants are sentient

Reply to KitSileya (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 07:57 AM

Feb 2014

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.

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So I'm pretty sure the sex scene in Bladerunner might constitute sexual assault... [View all] Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 OP

Movies are rife with this sort of messaging. Nauseatingly rife. n/t Whisp Feb 2014 #1

Yep. With human women being assaulted and then falling for their assailants. redqueen Feb 2014 #8

Very common theme in movies BainsBane Feb 2014 #2

Well it would be if she weren't a robot. nt Deep13 Feb 2014 #3

Supports the premise that Deckard is a jerk exboyfil Feb 2014 #4

It is sexual assault, no question about it. KitSileya Feb 2014 #5

It is not clear that replicants are sentient Shivering Jemmy Feb 2014 #6

Sure is ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #7