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by qazpot 2562 days ago
The book and the movie are very different but share the same philosophical underpinnings.

> pushed her hard against a wall when she apparently wanted to leave. Such an action and attitude wouldn't be acceptable these days.

I am tired of reading such comments where the current moral standards are being used to judge works of fiction written 50 years ago.

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Of all the possible defenses of that scene (Deckard is a villain; Deckard literally does not consider her a person at this point in the story; Deckard is trying to break her association with being the rich niece of the inventor of replicants; others), this is the absolute worst.