Post 2: Figurative and Literal meanings of Blade Runner

At face value, the movie Blade Runner is a sci-fi thriller about a police officer in the future that has the task of hunting down artifically intelligent robots that look like people. The literal meaning of this movie is pretty much just the story of a cop doing his job and falling in love with someone he is supposed to be hunting down. The figurative meaning of this movie is to ask the question of what is life. The whole story is designed to make the viewer ask the question what does it mean to be alive and what does it mean to be conscious. They do this by making the main character fall in love with a clone and question whether his love is valid.