Directed by Ridley Scott.
Released in 1982.
In this futuristic film, Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) is a blade runner whose job description includes tracking and "retiring" replicants, androids used either for work or pleasure. While tracking four escapees, Deckard meets Rachel (played by Sean Young) a particularly human-like replicant. Though programmed to be without emotion, the replicants' designers believed over time they would develop their own emotional responses and gave the androids four-year life spans to prevent disturbance. Deckard and Rachel's own relationship becomes romantic only after Rachel discovers that she is not human, but indeed, artificial. It becomes apparent to Deckard through his own experience with Rachel and the escaped replicants that they are not only capable of physical attraction to each other, and to Deckard in Rachel’s case, but actual love. In the final scene as Deckard helps Rachel escape he asks, “Do you love me?” To which she replies, “Yes, I love you.”
Based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, Blade Runner makes the argument that given the opportunity, androids would not only love like humans, but would love humans and be loved in return.
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