So basically the whole movie is about Deckard, Harrison Ford, is a blade runner, a cop that goes out to destroy replicants. Replicants are like clones, they have a fixed life span and they are programed with personalities and memories to believe they are humans. A group of relipcants have threatened Earth by merely existing and being mad that they are replicants and have only four years to live. They feel taken advantage of basically because they thought they were human, with independent thoughts and ideas and whole lives to live. I would be mad too if I was a replicant. Deckard is retired and thought he was done with that blade running business but not so when a man approaches him with s request by an old cop friend or boss. The boss man wants Deckard to kill the replicants. Deckard meets Rachel, a super smart replicant who doesn't know she is one, until Deckard reveals her memories to her and she is then so depressed. Inn another part of the city one of the replicant's meets a man who lives in a giant building by himself with his little people machines that look like clowns. The replicant's name is Pris, and she is involved with Roy, another replicant apart of the group Deckard is trying to retire. Eventually Roy and Pris stay with the man who lives in the building until Deckard finds out where they are. Roy gets the man to take him to his creator, Tyrell. Roy talks to him for a while and then kills him by shoving his thumbs through his eyes, totally disgusting and uncalled for but whatever it's the movies. Roy kills the man who was helping him also. Deckard finds out Tyrell and the other guy are both dead and goes to the mans house to find Pris attacking Deckard with flips and cartwheels and things. He shoots her and she spazes out for a bit and then dies. Now Roy is really going to be mad, they have a weird battle thing where Roy basically goes crazy and sticks his head through some walls. It ends with Roy helping Deckard off a ledge and Roy is so sad that he is a replicant and all his life has been meaningless, he says "Time to die.." referring to his own death. Oh and along this whole movie Rachel and Deckard "fall in love"...or as I saw it he makes her say she loves him and have sex with him and she stays with him because she has no where else to go and no body else to go to, she is safest with him. So he meets up with Rachel and they both walk out the apartment and Deckard notices the origami left by Gaff and it ends with a line about how nobody knows how long you have with someone in your lifetimes so best not think about it too much and live in the moment.
The reading had talked about the movie being about empathy instead of sympathy in sci-fi films and how seeing empathy was very rare and had not really happened. Empathy is the projection of one's own feelings or emotional state onto a person or animal or object. When Deckard is going out to retire the replicants he sees their frustration and could very well see himself having similar feelings if he were in their shoes. The film seemed more so about the emotional aspect of differing identities between subjects and what happens when they collide with more subjects with different elements and problems. The strongest thing this film had going for it was it's aesthetics, it was constantly wet and rainy and dark, it had elements of futuristic technology with classic madmen style. It was visually fun and exciting because of the different themes in the settings, the abandoned building in the futuristic city of hoovering cars and such for example. It was kind of racist at some parts when Deckard is talking to the Asian men at the food spot, and then just weird misogynistic with Deckards treatment of Rachel. I'd probably watch this again is someone brought it to my attention but not on a sunny day.
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