Blade Runner and Descartes’ Theory Essay - 535 Words

In the film â€Å"Blade Runner†, replicants are made perfectly like human beings through a well-done ‘skin jobs’ and genetic engineered. They can demonstrate the abilities to perform and work like human: they can talk and they can also have feelings and emotions. These replicants are stronger, faster, and smarter than humans; however, they are only genetically programmed for a designated life span of four years. Replicants are created to use as a slave labor, which is used in â€Å"off-world colonization†. Somehow, they return to Earth and confront their creator for a longer living life, but unfortunately the creator can’t make their life longer. According to Descartes’ theory, a person is someone who possesses a body and mind, and he indicates†¦show more content†¦He kissed her goodbye to show that he loved her. In the J.F Sebastian building, Pris said that: â€Å"I think, Sebastian, therefore I am†. She wanted to affirm that she was a real human being and had thoughts. Moreover, she started to panic when she knew that Leon and Zohra died. â€Å"We’re stupid then we die†, said Pris. All in all, emotions, feelings, and thoughts are elements to prove that the replicants have minds. And according to Descartes, replicants can be considered as person since they possess the essential part of â€Å"soul/mind†. However, for most religious people, they believe that only God can create the soul, and that is the part inside the body that determines whether or not a living figure is a person. In common sense, replicants are artificial humans. From my own perspective, these replicants in the movie are not considered human beings because they are artificially made; they are not naturally born. A real person should come from a woman’s womb. A person needs to go through a childhood to adulthood while these replicants only have a limited of four years life span. Real human beings do not kno w what exactly are going to happen to them. Furthermore, a normal person’s nature life span is longer than a replicant’s. For example, an average life span of an American is 80 years. On the other hand, replicants know exactly that they will die after 4 years. In the movie, the replicants demonstrate the ability of anShow MoreRelatedEssay on The Representation of the Body in Blade Runner2251 Words   |  10 PagesThis essay will discuss the representation of the body in Blade Runner because in discussing the effects of something yet to happen which is the dystopia presented by Blade Runner, in the present tense i.e. in assuming that it has already happened, we gain a greater insight and understanding of the consequences of our actions as a society now. Dystopic films and novels such as Blade Runner, Nineteen Eighty Four and Brave New World are invaluable as texts which have tied together philosophical, politicalRead More The Meaning of Life and Death Essay3649 Words à ‚  |  15 Pagespresented in various philosophies and religions and through this knowledge create a new definition for each idea of life and death. The movie Blade Runner has taken this exact approach in its attempt to finally define life and death in a logical and un-spiritual manner. By taking the position that death is a concrete idea that can be explained, Blade Runner accomplishes the task of interpreting the idea of life in terms death. Through this approach, the meaning of life is redefined to accommodateRead MoreA Postmodernist/Posthumanist Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s, Never Let Me Go Using Fredric Jameson’s Theory of Postmodernism and Late Capitalism.4659 Words   |  19 PagesA Postmodernist/Posthumanist reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s, Never Let Me Go using Fredric Jameson’s theory of Postmodernism and Late Capitalism. Posthumanism neologism is used to describe what comes after humanism and the question of what it means to be human. It is often and most frequently used to describe a dystopian life form that is created and crafted by humans themselves. Posthumanism is not to be confused with postmodernism, although their paths do cross intrinsically throughout this essay