Regarding Director's Cut, and other comments

Rating: 9/10 (8 December 2002)

(The famous spoilers shall follow). To everybody who likes this movie, I say "ditto". It is multilayered, moving, and looks great.

I would like to respond to a post that someone left earlier this year. This person commented on the scene where Deckard prevents Rachel from leaving his room, shoves her against the wall,and manipulates her into sleeping with him. She comments that Blade Runner fanatics must not realize there is anything wrong with this. Give me a break. One doesn't have to agree with all of the main character's actions in order to like a movie. This individual also charged Ridley Scott with racism, complaining he indirectly used the frequent Japanese and Chinese characters as scapegoats for the inhumanity of technology. I never associated Blade Runner's high Asian population with the replicant experiments. It just always struck me as a visual way to suggest this was in the future. Census figures are not frozen, they do change. Yes, we have the Chinese character who designs replicant eyes. But we also have white genetic experts in Sebastian, and the powerful Tyrell. Please. There's enough racism in this world already. No need to sound alarms in corners where it doesn't exist.
And I must say, I am not entirely happy with the notion that Deckard is a replicant, as the DC version indicates. I feel the question of "what does it mean to be human?" is covered well enough with all of the other replicants. By the end we've already seen a demonstration of two robots' love for one another (Roy and Pris). Deckard's love interest, Rachel, is also a replicant. To then learn that Deckard is supposed to be a replicant is redundant. Why not leave Deckard human so we can also ponder the idea of a human and a replicant having a deep relationship?