Bladerunner

While watching the movie Bladerunner, I kept forgetting the movie was not set in China or Japan because of the way the streets looked.  The way Las Angeles is portrayed definitely ties into the Cyborg Manifesto.  The movie demonstrates a capitalist society at its finest. We can clearly see the industrial environment created from the capitalist desire.  As the movie begins, flames burst into the sky from many different chimneys over a skyline that doesn't look Earthly.  Not only that, but when the replicants want to find someone to help lengthen their lives, there is only one company that can do it; a company that held a monopoly. 

I found it interesting that the essay mentions

The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism.  But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.  Their fathers, after all, are inessential.

In the movie we see this as the main replicant goes on a search for two people, Dr. Tyrell and J. F. Sebastian, who are good friends.  This replicant can't get what he wants from his creator Dr. Tyrell and so he kills him, showing no remorse for the death of his creator.  He kills Dr. Tyrell's best friend as well.  This shows that cyborgs have no soul and don't care about their creators.  What puzzles me is that there is no emotion at these deaths but he does seem to care when his replicant friends die. 

Finally, I see the eyes as the transgression of the boundary between human and machine.  The eyes are clearly from humans put into these replicant machines.  Because the replicants aren't human and aren't supposed to have emotions, their involuntary emotional responses displayed in their eyes are not the same as a humans.