Blade Runner Themes

What would happen if your identity became hazy and unclear? What if you were a clone of someone else, for instance? Would you still really be "you"? Would you have an identity distinct from the per...

Without your memories, you would probably just be swimming in a puddle of your own drool. They're kind of the key to everything: if you literally didn't have a past, you would have no idea how to b...

When discussing the killing of replicants, the blade runners tend to use a euphemism: they're not murdering replicants; they're just "retiring" them. But the replicants fear death just like any nat...

In Blade Runner, American society seems to be in a state of chaos. For one thing, it's run by a gigantic and nasty company, the Tyrell Corporation, which creates replicants for the purpose of slave...

In Blade Runner, the world is totally dominated by technology. Some of it is kind of cool—flying cars, people—but most of it is pretty bleak. For one thing, almost all animals have gone extinct...