Blade Runner

I, personally, did not like the movie Blade Runner at all. I did not like the story line or the character played by Harrison Ford. The voice-overs were very corny and often times detracted from the movie as a whole. However, there was only one instance when I enjoyed the commentary made in one of the voice-overs. I thought it was very interesting when Harrison Ford’s character was pondering why the replicant spared his life. Why would the replicant appreciate Ford’s life all of the sudden? The replicants lived an extremely unfair existence. They lived on the inferior planet which was incredibly bleak. They spend their lives in fear of these Blade Runners that were committed to exterminating them. Roy, the lead replicant, even asked, when he was pursuing Ford in the end of the movie, how it felt to live in constant fear. From that statement alone, it is easy to deduce that the life of a replicant was not much of an existence. To top that all off, Ford had just killed his only companion and the girl he was in love with. Why, after all of that, would he suddenly appreciate life, especially that of his enemy? What life had he even witnessed that was worth appreciating? His own consisted of constant fear and misery and Ford’s was not any better. Ford even went so far as to call himself a killer in his own introduction; he was clearly not too thrilled with his occupation either. So what, in that moment, did the replicant come to appreciate?