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I've always found it quite hard to have much sympathy for the replicants: in particular, Roy. If Bryant is to be believed, all four replicants have blood on their hands from the shuttle mutiny before the story really begins. It's hard to say what the conditions of the mutiny were (whether it was the equivalent of a cruise liner or a slave ship) so I'll ignore that for now.
Leon just seems a bit simple and, although he is thuggish, seems to be responding in a basic and childlike way to what's going on - ie, angrily. Zhora doesn't really seem to do much except try to stay out of sight in bleak conditions, and her death is pretty pitiful.
However, both Pris and Roy seem too weird to be very lovable, and both of them effectively misuse Sebastian's hospitality. Beyond that, Pris doesn't seem very reprehensible, but Roy tortures and presumably kills Chew, the eye manufacturer, and pointlessly murders Sebastian in a calculated fashion. Even taking into account Roy's predicament, he surely doesn't deserve the Christ-like symbolism at the end of the film. While I felt that Roy's final speech was sad, I didn't feel much for him individually - more a sense that he was an impressive person than a likable one.
That said, a friend of mine has joked that I'd have trouble passing the VK test, so what do I know?
Leon just seems a bit simple and, although he is thuggish, seems to be responding in a basic and childlike way to what's going on - ie, angrily. Zhora doesn't really seem to do much except try to stay out of sight in bleak conditions, and her death is pretty pitiful.
However, both Pris and Roy seem too weird to be very lovable, and both of them effectively misuse Sebastian's hospitality. Beyond that, Pris doesn't seem very reprehensible, but Roy tortures and presumably kills Chew, the eye manufacturer, and pointlessly murders Sebastian in a calculated fashion. Even taking into account Roy's predicament, he surely doesn't deserve the Christ-like symbolism at the end of the film. While I felt that Roy's final speech was sad, I didn't feel much for him individually - more a sense that he was an impressive person than a likable one.
That said, a friend of mine has joked that I'd have trouble passing the VK test, so what do I know?