tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717875266905215662.post4231126230497590185..comments2016-06-22T17:21:30.235-07:00Comments on The Cinema of Estrangement: Human vs. ReplicantsAl Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03251435271776441569noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717875266905215662.post-68524202810517291212011-02-27T20:47:16.899-08:002011-02-27T20:47:16.899-08:00To continue off of your aforementioned ideas, I th...To continue off of your aforementioned ideas, I think that the Tyrell Corporation’s slogan, “more human than human,” is the critical thought that the film is built upon. What makes humans, human? Today, we think of ourselves as the most advanced, but does that actually mean that we are any better than those of the past? Personally, I feel that as a species we are regressing. We are becoming more and more like the each other and thus our individuality is progressively diminishing. As much as we would like to think otherwise, what separates us from the robots is so little; humans are just as expendable, having an unknown expiration date, and as mentioned in class, we are often considered just a number. The influx of technology seemingly perpetuates this, tearing us from our emotion and plugging us into sources of electricity and machines rather than into true conversation and thought. Imagine looking at Chapel Hill from the perspective of a human in year 400 AD. At least 75% of people would be attached to some box of sort (a phone or a laptop) and long conversation would be rare. How human is this? Slavery is undoubtedly incredibly inhumane, as you mentioned, but this odd attachment to such materialistic devices makes us question the essence of humanity and think twice about our connection to machinery and robots.Mackenzie Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16123394379577921370noreply@blogger.com