Bladerunner and Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep? are pretty different kettles of fish. Electric Sheep like a lot of Dick's stuff is about the psychological construction of reality whose instability in turn destabilizes the psychic identity of the constructor (have you lived your life or are you an android with implanted memories? Can I tell the difference? More importantly, can you tell the difference?) It has a recurrent image of the material culture of the post apocalypse world crumbling into bits of trash, which Dick refers to as kibble (or is it kipple?) On the contrary, Bladerunner is about the material construction of psychology in a world where the most oppressed of the workforce have been literally commodified (produced for sale). Rather than crumbling into bits, the material culture has literally become monolithic dwarfing the humanity which moves within it. Only P.K. Dick purists would prefer the novel. Was Dekker an android? I thought his leaving with Rachel was a transfer of allegiance from the system to the oppressed, but my wife usually has to explain movies to me. Terry McDonough
