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Deckard spits in his face there’s a moment when Deckard could have fallen to his
death. To be gone from his depressive, alcoholic and moody nightmare and instead in
the warm, peaceful bosom of death. Roy instead forces Deckard to become something.
If Roy is the next step in evolution, and he is to die, then he needs someone to carry the
torch. He needs to pass the torch, and finally the film’s suggestive themes ties itself
back to the beginning of the fiery, industrial belly belching out its fires and gross
pollution blasphemies into the sky. Roy is leading a revolution, and now Deckard has to
rebel. Gaff’s acceptance of this brotherhood is a confirmation that Deckard now has to
become a real hero, a real human being.
Throughout the entire the film, the bureaucracy almost shackles Deckard. It
invades his space through the use of lights of the spinners, the police query him on
what he is doing, even when he’s finished he keeps being pulled in by Byrant even for
the “worst one yet”. Deckard grins when he hears Bryant’s name, that Bryant is utterly
dependent on the “old blade runner” to fight the odds and restore order.
But the bureaucratic quilt doesn’t stop there. Deckard is made a slave to it, and
the omnipresence of Gaff helps reinforce this idea. Deckard is a slave to the system just
as much as everybody else, but he chooses not to admit it under his newspaper reading
and alcoholic escapades.
But, eventually, Deckard finds that rebellion is the only true way to salvation. In
choosing to love Rachael, in choosing to find love in a Replicant (arguably truly more
human than human now, given the dehumanised docile populace), he has become
Batty. He has gone above humanity and taken on this torch, the nod to the unicorn at
the end may not just be an acknowledgement of brotherhood or his Replicant existence
but of his question. We’re told that “If you’re not a cop, you’re little people!” and Batty’s
final battle with Deckard includes the taunt of “Proud of yourself little man?” In killing
Batty’s brethren.
If you’re not tied to the bureaucracy, then you’re a little person. You’re like the
rest. But Batty invites Deckard to consider the fact that, even with the gloves of the
police state in his hands, he is still a slave to a wider system. He is still a “little man”.
The next step is further covered through the use of the technology language of
the world. Deckard asks what happens “If the machine doesn’t work?” On the Nexus
Six. Bryant looks worried. The machine does work, even though “It took more than a
hundred for Rachael” suggesting that the Replicants are indeed the next step. They are
beginning to outpace humanity, and Rachael further probes Deckard about his own
emotions later in the film.
“Replicants are like any other machine; they’re either a benefit or a hazard.”
To Deckard, the Replicants are not the next step. They’re machines. A series of
binaries and metal-bits all built towards either humanity’s benefit or to humanity’s
destruction. All of it is for humanity but it’s odd seeing Deckard say this. This is a man
who reads newspapers and ignores the blimps calling him to the new world. Deckard