By new Voight-Kampff test, we are talking about the "cells interlinked" scenes?
Yeah
I'm still not sure which one I like better, the old one has a certain charm, I don't know how to express what makes it special.
But the new one... It's so "personal" and almost "aggressive" to the replicant being tested.
Questions like "When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box?", "Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger?" and mostly "Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing?" and the only answers being cells and interlinked work a whole lot better, because the test is meant to check the emotional state of a replicant that wasn't made to feel, and not if the subject was a replicant or not. Either way, the viewer gets a deeper connection to the character during the first test and that makes the second test seem a lot more impactful in a "holy shit" kinda way when K starts let "real" emotion slip into his answers.
As scenes and tools to tell a story, I think the new one is better.
But asking someone to describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother sure is an interesting way to know if someone is a replicant or not.
Nice writeup; better explanation of my thoughts.
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