The Final Cut: A love story
Rick Deckard (well played by Harrison Ford) has no taste for his work as a Blade Runner and is in retirement; only to return to the job when given no choice — If you’re not cop, you’re little people, the Police Captain informs him, no pension, nothing, you’re out. So Deckard gets back in the saddle and the movie is on.
In the Final Cut version (released in 2007) it is made entirely clear that Deckard is a replicant. The scene in his apartment one evening, Deckard half drunk on whiskey, sitting at the piano, drifting through a reverie featuring a majestic unicorn running through a forest. The end of the movie will powerfully reveal the significance of this moment.
Rachael (Sean Young) is initially under the impression that she is a regular female human being, just like Martha, Jane, Betty or Sue. She soon finds out otherwise; that she is a replicant. And not just any replicant, but the most advanced kind: Rachael is an experimental Nexus-7. Mind boggling, because the movie often describes how magnificent is a Nexus-6.
Rachael has memory implants from Eldon Tyrell’s niece; Eldon Tyrell being the genius behind the Tyrell Corporation. The very corporation that manufactures the replicants, and presumably a vast array of other technologies prevalent in the dark and dystopian society that we experience in Blade…
