This is well written and I enjoyed this read.
It's funny how people see what they want to see rather than what is obvious before them. It seems as though this guy wanted to see the oppression and interpreted simple things in that context.
I've seen many cases of this, where they author or narrator will say something along the lines of, “the tension [in the scene] is partially that Rachel may already be dead, but also that if she is alive, Deckard may be about to kill her" when the scene itself is clearly something altogether different.
[aside] This sort of thing created a great deal of conversation in the My Cousin Vinny board [end aside]
the film establishes that, in a physical confrontation, Deckard is no match for a Replicant. Rachel could leave — or break him in half — at any moment, if she so chose.
It's been a while since I've seen this, but does
she know that? And even if she does, does it occur to her in that context? It's easy to say that she can overpower him, but in this dynamic, she may still have a sheep's mentality. Not that this invalidates the point.
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jriddle73 (363)
2 months ago
This is well written and I enjoyed this read.
Thanks--I try.
It's funny how people see what they want to see rather than what is obvious before them. It seems as though this guy wanted to see the oppression and interpreted simple things in that context.
It seemed to me as if he took the one scene, entirely removed from the context of the film, misread it rather badly, then tried to reinterpret the film to fit that misreading. I found this to be a very strange exercise.
It's been a while since I've seen this, but does she know that?
She knows she's a Replicant, and she'd just seen what Replicants can do to Deckard (Leon had just pulverized him right before her eyes).
And even if she does, does it occur to her in that context?
It's a real question. Until a little earlier in the movie, she'd believed herself to be an ordinary woman. It doesn't really impact the reading of the scene but it's unacknowledged by Simpson, who presents Deckard--who also knows she's a Replicant--as overpowering her.
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