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Your Voight-Kampff Test Indicates You Saw Nothing at Hiroshima
During the first minutes of the classic cyber-punk Noir Blade Runner, we’re introduced to the rules of the universe through the interview of a replicant. The Voight-Kampff test is built to reveal “artificiality” in those probed. It’s a combination of questions and a censor that focuses on the subject’s eye, it is supposed to help the Blade Runner to do his job. Though the premise would offer a satisfying nail-bitter in a cyberpunk world already filled with grandiose landscapes, daring visuals, and haunting music, the movie goes further than that and explores what would happen if one of those replicants thought they were human and didn’t know their precious memories were implanted artificially. We’re shown Deckard, the main Blade Runner doing the Voight-Kampff test for hours on the main female character, precisely because Rachel believes in her own human self, her own memory makes it that hard for the test to corner whatever artificiality it is supposed to get to. How do you tell someone who tells the truth from someone who is convinced they are telling the truth? But Blade Runner goes farther. Ultimately, and with an ending that gave us one of the best monologue and sympathetic villain, the movie asks if the distinction between human and non-human, real memories and fake ones, matters in the first place.
By Public Mistake8 years ago in Geeks
