WARNING: The following bloggie bit contains a spoiler for those who may not have seen the director's cut of Blade Runner and wish to do so with a pure, virgin and uncontaminated viewpoint. Since it's been out for almost ten years now, you're slack to the extreme.

Now that those unworthy have hidden, let's continue. I have only ever seen the director's cut of Blade Runner. I have seen it twice now. It was clear to me the first time I saw it that something was deeply uncertain here. The second time I saw it, it was so glaringly obvious that I nearly slapped myself. Deckard was a replicant. It adds that bit of poignancy to the storyline, and makes everything a lot more smugly screwed up. Hence my confusion when I came across an article declaiming: "Blade Runner riddle solved". Riddle? There was a riddle? Oops.

I didn't count the replicants, or anything like that. I didn't even register that there was one missing from the count, and I never thought Deckard had come with the other four (although that really adds that bit extra to it... have to see it again now). It was the unicorn that did it for me.

On a minorly related note, the other "movie mysteries" listed in the article amused me a lot. Especially the one from The Italian Job. Quirky movie. Odd ending. [Thanks to billyjoebob for pointing me in the way of this article.]