Filmmakers use various techniques to create a compelling and memorable film for audiences. In 1982's Blade Runner, Ridley Scott portrays various themes of mortality, memory, and identity through various cinematic techniques such as editing, cinematography, and mise-en-scène. The theme of morality can be shown throughout the film due to the director's use of editing, cinematography and staging. The moral aspect here is to create these replicas to be sent to another world and become slaves to humans with a limited time of four years before being "retired". Early in the film, Scott uses an extreme close-up of Roy's hand balling into a fist. It is used to show the time and freedom constraints of the replication. The surrounding environment is also very dark; darkness means anger, pain and death. The only thing in this scene is Roy's hand, however, upon closer inspection, it can be seen that Roy's nails are black and dirty, signifying the hard work the replicas have to endure and also raising the question morality of why these replies are discriminated against?...