Philip K. Dick´s nazi diaries influence

@Gehirn: BINGO! Indeed it was for that very reason! @Arkadine: Interesting insight you shared there. But talking emotions, if the replicants didn't have any, how's Pris able to 'enjoy' pulling a spider's legs out? If they know what fun is, they should know sadness as well, unless they've been programmed that way, no?

@HAL 9000 Well, the replicants are a great allegory, a great mirror for us people. You could ask the same about a psychopath or a serial killer... how can they be nice to a pet dog, or be moved by a Symphony and, on the other hand, be able to perform the most horrifying acts without feeling any remorse? Well, empathy, or the lack of it is the answer.

@Arkadine: You got a point there. But I'd assume human's would always be a lot more complex and 'random', if you want. An attribute I'd never expect to find in replicants, no matter how cleverly programmed they'd be. Therefore, behave much more predictable in a way.

Hey Wirrn, I agree with most items on your list, maybe not so much with the movie "Conspiracy", I found it pretty lenghty and weak (not referring to the story here but how it's been made into a film). Then I couldn't agree more on how much 'better' "The Pianist" is compared to "Schindlers List". Have you ever heard of the novel (1992) and TV film (1994) "Fatherland"? Might be worth adding to your list. Oh, and how about the film "Downfall" (2004)? Or do you maybe feel like it is looking at the Holocaust from the wrong perspective? As I'm not sure about your background, I'd understand that only too well. [i]"Fatherland is a bestselling 1992 thriller by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris. It takes the form of a high concept alternative history set in a world in which Nazi Germany won World War II. The novel was an immediate bestseller in the UK. It has sold over three million copies and has been translated into 25 languages."[/i]

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”----- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

THis morning the Science Channel run a documentry about the writer Philip K. Dick's life. It was very interesting as he, a writer, kept coming up with stories about parallel earth and stories that have been made into movies i am aware of . There was mention of a book 'The Man In The High Castle'. dealing with a different outcome of WWII. The storyline caused me to remember the scene where Fifield and millburn discove a pile of Engineer bodies. THere was a mention of holocaust. I could help but wonder(especially since Ridley Scott was part of the program.).that the scene was a nod toward Dick's writing in the SciFi field.