It starts with a crime.
Deckard must question what he is doing, and really what is the essential difference between him and them? And, to take it one step further, who is he if there is no real difference? That's the way Dick talks about it. The line is blurry, the Voight-Kampff test have never failed yet.
In the novel, she sings Mozart's Zaüberflute, he falls in love -fuck and retire- the real cat that was not working properly at the beginning of the book. The movie forks itself seven times. Rachael blowing a replicant's head, retiring one of her own.
That as a kind of introduction. Now the question is, Have Deckard committed murder? After Rachel dies, he comes back to Los Angeles and give himself to the police. Time has passed and replicants start to rise for their rights, blood has being drawn, but no clear answer is yet there.
Deckard goes to trial, the first of its kind: a jury, composed of six humans and six replicants, is formed. The president of the jury looks uncanny similar to Batty, but a Nexus-7 version. The trial goes for 3 months.
The idea is not mine, of course. I heard it in Chile in a talk by Walter J. Freeman, maybe 4 years ago. He didn't mention Blade Runner tho. But the trial was there, the blood. It always start with a crime. A crime and the unyielding need for a society, an intersubjectivity to judge the crime. To define, in a cut that will go through time, what was to be human. Again, Batty will be always already human only when Deckard is condemned.
The ethical deadlock: On the one hand "Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise." On the other hand, "I would prefer not to." They look, hate, smile at each other, they jump one over the other, surmounting the other's will at the slightest chance. “The passive decision, condition of the event, is always, structurally, another’s decision in me, a rending decision as the decision of the other. Of the absolutely other in me, of the other as the absolute who decides of me in me.” But we build him, the other.
If there is only one world (and I think it does), we are all criminals and we will deserve dead.
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