Blade Runner

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I'm betting most people with an ASD will fail the Voight-Kampff Test.

nevermind

Blade Runner is one of my all time favorite movies. Phillip K. Dick is one of my favorite authors. Although the book and movie differ, I find them to be similar on a spiritual level and it is perhaps a serendipitous combination of factors that made this turn out so. Almost every character in the movie is a neuro-divergent in some way, although Rutger Hauer, whose improvised final lines are one of the factors that made the movie, prefers Deckard a human so as to emphasize the battle between man and machine. Roy Batty is the protagonist of the film in Hauer's perception.

I prefer the original version with the Harrison Ford commentary, anyone share this view?

Vanilla_Slice

I think Rutger Hauer does because of the aforementioned man versus machine theme. I didn't like the happy ending, but otherwise it's an interesting interpretation. I'll always prefer the director's cut myself.

I remember when it was first released. It was at the same time a big blockbuster was released (which one I can't remember) and so it got pushed to the background. I remember thinking after I had seen it that it was a shame that such a great film was going to be passed over because of this. I was wrong thankfully, the film is a classic. I liked the director's cut better, the voice over didn't do it for me. The scene with Roy Batty on the rooftop with Deckhard before he "dies" is fabulous. Gives me goosebumps every time. My thoughts on Phillip K. Dick is that he's not the greatest writer stylistically, but the content of his work supersedes that.