| I watched a special on the making of Bladerunner a while back on the TV. It showed various locations and techniques that went into the film for example the horizontal panning shot of the interior of the police station was actually a Train station in the states somewhere. The thing is that at the end of the program was an interview with Ridley Scot. When asked directly if Dekard was a replicant he smiled and gave a very definate yes. Theres a clue early on in the film. When he takes on the job hes told that Six skin jobs escape, one fries on an electric fence. That leaves five but we only ever see four. You could believe that Dekard is the fith and that hes somehow been reprogrammed with new memories to catch the others. It takes a thief to catch a thief, that sort of thing but there is no recognition between him and the escapees so that begs the question, wheres the other. Also the worried looks that Bryant gives Dekard in the viewing room. So all in all I strongly believe he is.
Thing is when I watch the film I wish he wasnt. Its Deckards aura of human frailty at the end that lend strength to the story. The nervousness on his face and the desperation of his actions contrast against the calm selfaware superiority of the replicants. This gives us a division that causes you to think that ultimately mankind has gone too far and superceeded itself. To find that after all this, the Bladerunner is himself a replicant is true, very poignant but a let down and the message is lost. |