The Importance of Ambivalence in Noir

The film is pretty ambiguous about Deckard's status as either a human or a replicant. In the novel, he just like sort of goes about killing all these people and there's no real like remorse or anything about it. That kind of ambiguity about his calling and what he's doing just isn't there in the book. The femme fatale quote unquote, who he kind of has this sort of quasi love affair with in the film. Again, that ambiguity over her status as like a fully, you know, empathic or deserving of empathy,. Big Lebowski is definitely like in LA noir. What what happens is those become so sort of self referentially