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1. Discuss the symbolism of the eye. As you know, the eye is considered as window to the soul. In this film, the symbolism of the eye is the human emotions. Until now, although the science and technology have highly upward steps, they cannot create the eye that similar to human eye. In film, Chew, the eye marker, uttered "if only you could.....your eyes" that prove Roy's eyes exactly the same as human eye. They are so valid and lively that absolutely show all emotions inside.
2. What is the significance of the chess game?
The symbolism of the chess game makes the viewers recall "the chess" in The Immortal Game. Hence, the viewers connect in ideas and apply this in Blade Runner to conceive that the chess game between Tyrell and Sebastian looks like the end of two characters in The Immortal Game.
Although the chess boards in the film don't look like exactly as The Immortal Game, we can know the game represents the battle of the replicants and humans. The humans try to remove replicants one by one. Besides, the game between Tyrell and Sebastian also is the game between Roy and Tyrell; however, Tyrell makes a dead wrong in game and another fatal mistake trying debate with Roy.
3. What does Tyrell mean when he calls Roy “the Prodigal son”?
First of all, I will analyze the word “prodigal”. Prodigal means to spend a lot of money on things you don't need and being very wasteful with what you have. Since that, we can understand Tyrell calls Roy “the prodigal son” that means Tyrell admits his mistakes when creating replicants and now he doesn’t need them anymore.
4. How do you interpret the following dialogue?
Roy found Tyrell, his father, to have the way of maintaining the life but when he met Tyrell, Tyrell just said that he didn’t have any solution to fix this problem and advised Roy to enjoy the short life yet. In other words, Roy has to admit the death as human being. After dying, people will come heaven.
5. Why do you think Roy drive a nail through his

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