The movie Blade Runner is perhaps meant to make the viewers debate over it even for more years to come. The mystery around the movie revolves around the question whether Deckard is a replicant or not. Deckard is initially a retired police officer who is instructed by Bryant to help retire the replicants that are causing conflict with human beings (Chitwood, 2017). From the onset, viewers wonder what Bryant knows about Deckard that other people do not know. Even when Deckard is reluctant about the assignment, Bryant compels him to take up the task. Deckard seems to have no option. If Gaff suspects that Deckard is not a human being, is it possible that a senior officer like Bryant is unaware of the true identity of Deckard? It is possible to speculate that Bryant had the idea that the best way to retire other replicants was to use another replicant.
However, the whole movie is ambiguous. For instance, Deckard falls in love with Racheal, who is a replicant. He fathers a child who possesses human qualities. How is it possible that replicants would sire a child of human qualities? Even if the movie is fictitious, properties such as child-bearing ought to be presented realistically. Looking at Deckard’s ability to father a child, one can postulate that he is a human. But Racheal is a replicant, an aspect that creates debate on how a human being and a replicant can have a child. Many individuals postulate that for the two characters to sire a child, they must possess the same characteristics. Individuals thus conclude that both Deckard and Racheal must be replicants.
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Another controversy arising from the true identity of Deckard was when he takes the Voight-Kampff test. It is alleged that he passed the test. But viewers doubt about the manner in which Deckard passed the test when Racheal asks him later on whether he truly passed the test (Saunders, 2017). In the test, individuals’ eyes are exposed to a red light. When replicants are exposed to the light, their eyes glow while those of humans do not. However, from the start, Deckard’s eyes seem to glow more than those of human beings. Besides, in the beginning, he seems to be devoid of human feelings such as compassion and love. He is too aggressive on the hunt for replicants and destroys them. But as time goes by, probably from the interaction with Racheal, he becomes more compassionate and develops empathy for replicants.
Conclusively, perhaps the most revealing part of Deckard’s true identity is at the end of the movie. He comes across the origami unicorn made of tinfoil. Previously while daydreaming at the piano, Deckard had had a dream that predicted of his escape. Then at the end of the movie, he comes across a unicorn shaped in the form of a horse. Gaff was the person who had an obsession with folding papers. Gaff knew that Deckard was not human and at the end of the movie, he confirms to Deckard. Deckard must be a replicant but with extraordinary abilities.
References
Blade Runner (10/10) Movie CLIP - The Ending: A Replicant? (1982) HD . (2018). YouTube . Retrieved 7 January 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPsmFSNWc4&feature=youtu.be&t=1m40s
Chitwood, A. (2017). ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Writers on Whether Deckard Is a Replicant . Collider . Retrieved 7 January 2018, from http://collider.com/blade-runner-2049-is-deckard-a-replicant/#images
Saunders, T. (2017). Is Deckard a Replicant? The history of Blade Runner's most enduring mystery . The Telegraph . Retrieved 7 January 2018, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/deckard-replicant-history-blade-runners-enduring-mystery/
