ABSTRACT
The weave of Reeve's essay on the cult film Blade Runner is a rich one indeed. The author offers a supplement to Reeve's essay by pulling upon three threads that he has articulately brought to our attention: what is human or not, freedom's limit, and time re-considered. Reeve shows how time is an organizing element to the emotional landscape of Blade Runner. From one perspective Blade Runner appears to tilt toward nihilism as our inevitable fate; a place that Nietzsche suggested people must following the death of God, finally arrive so humanity may be able create a new foundation. There is a kind of time illustrated in Blade Runner that the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan called logical time. Reeve describes very nicely Gaff's role as marking for the audience the arc of Deckard's development. He offers us an engaging analysis of the small sculptures as symbolic evidence.
