The series of questions in the fictional test, such as the one above, are designed to separate out humans from replicants by provoking a physiological response indicating empathy. Perhaps nothing is more emblematic of Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian film Blade Runner than the Voight-Kampff test administered by the movie’s titular law enforcers, including Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. For K, however, the dream and the promise of self-actualization as some messianic replicant child do not come true.“You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and you see a tortoise … You reach down and you flip the tortoise on its back. The silver screen promises that dreams - even android ones filled with electric sheep - do come true for all of us. We grow up in the light of Hollywood, our heads filled with movie images, thinking anything is possible. In so many ways, he symbolizes the egocentric inner child in all of us, who wants to believe they are so much more than they really are sometimes. He's not the chosen one, but he still got to play the hero. "Blade Runner 2049" has a bittersweet ending. K's fate is ultimately a sad yet noble one. Outside Ana's lab, K lies down on the snowy steps, succumbing to his wounds, ready to meet his melancholy fate. He takes Deckard to be reunited with his daughter. Since it will look like Deckard has perished in the crash, K is able to defy both Wallace's will (torture Deckard for information) and that of the replicant revolutionaries (kill Deckard to protect the child).
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