“Loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?”
Quite. More like about the same until halfway, at which point the book takes a right turn and the movie a left, taking us to very different conclusions.
The movie was so much more profound than the book.
The movie explored the question: What would you do if you met your maker?
Roy told his maker, "I want more life, effer."
To which his maker said, we made you as best as you could possibly be.
Of course, the creature was unsatisfied with what all his creator gave to him, so the creature proceeds to kiss his maker and kill him.
It was a futile act, because the creature itself dies eventually.
The moral of the film: You can be unhappy enough with yourself and kill the one who made you (atheism), but it won't change a thing.