Moon and Blade Runner

Self-awareness is something artists must possess. In post-modernism, the artist delves inside to come up with inspiration. What if a person learned that they were not even a person at all? This is the premise to Moon and Blade Runner. Our protagonist is a clone or a robot that doesn't know what it is. Eventually, in the case of Moon, and arguably in the case of Blade Runner, our non-human protagonist develops the self-awareness it needs to act on behalf of it's own needs. The infererence of Scott's Blade Runner is that the main character, Deckard doesn't know he is actually a robot. All of his memories have been implanted in him by a corporate magnate. This in and of itself is a concept rife with meaning. Haven't we all been programmed since youth by commercials and other TV filler? Television is a rite of passage for kids; we all spend a great deal of time sitting in front of it. Some of us outgrow the tube and others don't. If we media-brats look back to our earliest, primordial memories we may find it difficult to separate what really happened to us with something we watched on television.