nottorp 7 days ago

> can't remember the details of that scene

Deckard gets arrested by a different police agency - they think they're the only ones, just like Deckard's agency. He gets accused of being an android with implanted memories.

They administer Voigt-Kampf tests to each other and while everyone ends up as human, the scene serves to make who's human and who isn't even more of a question.

What really ticks me off about all movies made from Dick's writings is that they cut off most of the ambiguity.

I shudder to think what they'd make of Ubik or A Maze of Death...

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ndsipa_pomu 7 days ago

I'd love them to get around to attempting Ubik - it's a shame that Gondry abandoned his attempt.

In terms of ambiguity, surely Blade Runner is a prime example of ambiguity and the dichotomies between real/fake, light/dark, salvation/damnation, hunter/hunter etc. There's also the very significant portrayal of Roy Batty as both the villain and a Christ-like figure (e.g. nail in his hand, confronting his maker and both kissing and killing him).

nottorp 7 days ago

Yeah, I wonder if whoever wrote the script confused Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? with Divine Invasion and added Christian motives from there :)

ForOldHack 7 days ago

It really really ticks me off too, because it makes multiple watchings much more interesting, and the writing has much more depth.