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You list several valid points, I will try to justify my position in the face of them.
1) Lack of Physical Strength.
Why do all Replicants have to the same strength? Maybe Deckards (Blade Runner) Model just isn't that strong. (BS reason, Police don't want to deliberatly put super/strong replicants in the population...)
Besides, he's not that much of a puss... Within two days he gets the snot beaten out of him, what three times??? Zora beats him silly. If he were human, she would have killed him. But he wasn't dying. She freaked and ran. Leon, like twenty minutes later, gives him a couple of punches to the head, (Punches which dent steel) and tosses him around like a ragdoll. The other girl replicant (name?) also gives him a beating that would put a human in the hospital.
Without getting medical attention, he still manages to climb the facade of the Bradbury with a busted up hand!!!
This guy Definatly exhibits stamina beyond normal man.
2) At the beginning of the movie he has quit the police force and only returns reluctantly when threatend. A replicant could not quit being nothing more than a slave.
Right!! He was NEVER in the police force (Uh oh, theorising has begun!!!). He is a Nexus 6 replicant. Nexus 6 replicants are given identities and personalities. His personality is that of the retired cop. When ever they want to use him, the cops have to indulge in a 'play'. Deckard Plays his part perfectly. After every mission, they wipe his memory, and plop him back on the street corner where they found him. How many times has Edward James Olmos had to come down and say those exact same words. Deckard is trapped in his idiom. Trapped in his fate. When I watch the movie with this point of view, his conversations in the police station are much more powerfull. His Seargent acts so strangly during these scenes, almost as if he still isn't used to the idea of using replicants for this work.
So, not a definate refute. It is an alternative way to look at the movie.
3) If his memories are implants, why was he not given memories that would inspire him to hate replicants?
Who are you to question the Robot Psychologists of Tyrell Corporation? :)
Well, isn't empathy more useful than hatred when hunting? He has to think like the replicants to guess where they would hide. Maybe this is why they USE replicants to hunt replicants, a thief to catch a thief.
4) Unicorn dream, not conclusive.
Your right. The meaning of the dream is not definitive. But it is VERY suggestive. She is a Virgin (Unless the Rachel charactor is an integral part of this Android hunting program...) So is Deckard, if he is a replicant. Unicorns are fictional beasts. So are Replicants. Maybe everyone in the movie are Replicants, and that makes the idea of humans as mythical as the Unicorn.
Hey!!!
All humans have long since left dirty old earth. All that is left are the scores of forgotton robots playing at being alive. Thats a weird thought!
Well i've talked enough, and I am NOT going to revise this, so I apologise for the bad structure.
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