The notion what is real and what is not forces us to think deeper about what it means to be human. Replicants look human and act like humans, yet aren’t considered by the audience to be real because they are in fact, robots. As highly developed robots, with artificial intelligence they aren’t considered to have typical ‘human’ mannerisms, such as; abstract thought, free will, emotions, the sensational absence of replicants …show more content…
Roy Batty was considered by Tyrell to be the perfect specimen. The fact that he has blonde hair and blue eyes could be a reference to the historical events of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi ideals. Replicants will do the jobs that no human wants to do, for example war; when human soldiers go to war there is a chance that they won’t come back alive, this brings a sadness not only to the soldier’s family, but to the nation they were fighting for. But if a robot is sent out into war and gets blown up there isn’t sadness because they are considered replaceable and their lives don’t mean as much as a human one does. Replicants were also being used for human enjoyment. J.F. Sebastian is clearly a lonely person as he has been forced to stay on Earth, lonely and mistreated by humanity, having the replicant Pris around him makes him feel happy and not as alone. Therefore, making the replicants more appealing then