More human than human.

Harrison Ford. Not just Indy Jones and Han Solo, but mega Spunkrat for those of us of a more advanced age, in a Gen-X kind of way.....

What is it about Rick Deckard in Blade Runner? With his dishevelled, disinterested, uneasily noirish approach to his murderous profession? Classic anti-hero in a Phillip Marlowe sense, doing what he hates, but what needs to be done. TCB.

And now for the $50 000 question. Replicant, or not? The director's cut muddies the android waters somewhat.

Read this!!!

Go to: http://www.truly-free.org/ and download Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Similarities? Differences??

I will give you a couple of days to read this novella, then give you some of my bloggy ideas!

Do Teachers dream of cosmic sleep?

I certainly do.

Dreams. What are they all about? Are they real, lucid or fantastical, mind meanderings which we tuck furtively away into those nether regions of our sub-consciousness?

For me, very occasionally, art gives hope, a type of wish-fulfillment that the world could be a different place. Things like the simple yet blindingly poignant death speech of Roy Batty, who, in a few words, reveals his understanding of the world and empathy for man through the ages. At that moment, he is indeed more human than human.

If only human empathy were that simple.


All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
Time to die.

I hope you come to love Blade Runner as much as I do. :-) Tell me what you really think of it.