Aydin's Journal prompt #4

                Throughout the story, of Blade Runner Deckard must look upon himself and upon the androids to decide essentially what is the difference between them? The movie’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep brought up a question of who Rick Deckard really is. During the film we witness key scenes which give the viewer insight on Deckard and his past life. In the scene where Racheal asks Deckard whether he has passed the Voight-Kampff or not, she receives no answer. Similarly, there is no mention of his previous life, other than his apparent divorce.  This poses the question of whether Deckard is a human or is he an android? The movie leaves the auidence in ambiguity. That is until the Director’s and Final cut addition of the movie. The audience is provided with a new scene and ending that gives us our definitive answer. The scene begins with Deckard looking at old photographs, he then falls asleep and dreams of a unicorn running through a forest. This dream is never mentioned in the movie until the very end, where at the door of Gaff’s apartment he finds a small origami unicorn. This suggests that Gaff knew about Deckard’s unicorn dream and the only possible explanation for this is that Deckard’s memories (and dreams) were implanted. This gives us our final answer, that Deckard is an Android. Or is he? In the novel it is conclusive that Deckard is a human; however, the movie states otherwise. So is Deckard a human or an android? That’s not the question we should be asking ourselves: The bigger question is,  what’s the difference?