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I'm not in the business. I am the business.
— Blade Runner · 1982
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Rachael turns an occupational euphemism back into a statement about who is treated as disposable. Her reply exposes the distance between Deckard’s work and her personhood.
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In context
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After Rachael saves Deckard from Leon in Blade Runner, they talk in Deckard’s apartment. Deckard describes the shakes as part of his profession, and Rachael points out that she is herself what that profession is paid to hunt.
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