It turned out that Deckard was one too.* The sub-text of the movie Blade Runner was how most of us are robotic in that we unconsciously accept the reigning cultural paradigm, literally dehumanizing those who don't fit. The irony is that the replicants were sympathetic in that they were the only ones truly free of its dogma. In the final scene Deckard realizes this during Batty's dying soliloquy.
PS: We studied this book and film during my BA in English Literature. Both are 'postmodern' in the sense that they leave open a final, 'real' meaning, instead allowing for individual interpretations. Of which there are many. The above is part of my take. * To highlight the PS, Scott himself intended Deckard to be a replicant. Ford disagreed and maintained that Deckard was human.
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