In Blade Runner 2049, K is on a journey to discover if he has a soul like his human masters. He wants to be more than just a biological machine created to serve. K sees being born as a way to be more remarkable than other replicants. However, what he didn't realize is that he had a soul all along.
Thematically, 2049 is an extension of the original, continuing to ask questions about life, humanity, the nature of the soul, and free will in a world that's now completely past the point of saving.
Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.
The goal of Blade Runner 2049 is to prevent the knowledge of how Rachael was able to give birth from becoming known. Lt. Joshi, orders a blade runner named K to find and destroy all evidence that the birth took place, including the child. All the characters are involved with or affected by this goal.
Personhood. Blade Runner raises the question of whether a constructed being should count as a person. In the movie, replicants lack legal rights and are not regarded as human. Similar questions are raised in later unrelated works such as Her and Westworld.
Blade Runner later became a cult film, and has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest science fiction films. Hailed for its production design depicting a high-tech but decaying future, the film is often regarded as both a leading example of neo-noir cinema and a foundational work of the cyberpunk genre.
Villeneuve uses yellow as a source of information and enlightenment for our hero, K. Anytime a major plot point gets revealed or a new twist happens, yellow is in the composition somehow.
Yes, Lieutenant Joshi (played by Robin Wright) is human. While Replicants were now on civil service and the police force, they were not given positions of authority. So too, Gaff (played by Edward James Olmos) is human. Niander Wallace (played by Jared Leto) is undoubtedly, definitively human.
However, he later learns that, even if the memory is real, it was not his own but Dr Ana Stelline's. Through her work, Dr Stelline shared her memory with K, and this allowed him to understand what it was like to walk in her shoes, but most importantly, to believe himself a free, loved replicant.
She examined the memory, which happened to be her own, hiding the horse at the orphanage. Tearfully, she confirmed it to be real. Because of this memory, K became convinced that he was Rachael and Deckard's child, but was eventually informed by Freysa that he was not and that the child was female.
His perfect match would disobey her programming to help him. Regardless of your opinions on the above, I do think that the movie clearly says that Joi's love for K was programmed/created by a corporation. But he loves her back.
During the final fight with K, after subduing him, she smugly kissed him and retorted "I am the best one!", as if trying to prove her superiority over not just K, but all other replicants, further hinting at her deep-seated insecurities that she kept well-hidden.
The big twist in the final act of the movie is that K isn't the son of Deckard and Rachael at all, but just another cog in the machine that might lead to the child's discovery.
The corporation also brought digital technology back to the planet's citizens with the introduction of the Wallace Datalink Network. Replicant prohibition was lifted in 2036 with the introduction of the Nexus-9. Despite the pressure to leave Earth, many humans continued to live on the overcrowded planet as of 2049.
K started the movie believing he was made, with implanted memories. He then thought he was born, and that the memories were real. In fact, as revealed by the end of the movie, he was made and the memories were implants – but they were real, implanted memories from the actual daughter of Deckard and Rachael.
I believe that the film is telling us that one does not have to be born to have a soul, for K certainly has a soul, rather it is just that a subject must become a person for it to be demonstrated that a subject has a soul, and it is certainly the case that K is a person…
The story continues from the original, but stands completely on it's own, it tells a new story that directly interlink with the original, but without trying to be a copy, it's a natural continuation in the same universe. You don't have to see the original Blade Runner first, though i do recommend it, see the final cut.
Buttocks and breasts are briefly shown up close. The context of the scene is non sexual. There is a nude male replicant on a medical table in the background. Pubic hair and genitals are visible from a distance.
But there's also a plot-centered justification. Blade Runner has a glib view of the future in which corporations wreak untold damage to the lives of civilians. This recurring theme is reflected in its constant rain, which is intended to illustrate the effects of LA's dangerously high levels of pollution.
Following a violent mutiny by Replicants on an Off-World Colony, the androids were outlawed on Earth. Specialized police units, "Blade Runners", are charged with the difficult task of detecting Replicants who illegally come to Earth.
"Tears in rain" is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. Written by David Peoples and altered by Hauer, the monologue is frequently quoted.
Ridley Scott's 1982 film “Blade Runner” was a dark, dystopian neo-noir movie full of challenging themes that helped it form a legacy as one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, while also further cementing Harrison Ford's status as a great Hollywood leading man.
Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner (1982) is reexamined in these autistic terms, where the cyborg characters are reconfigured as neuroqueer subjects, and the postmodern spectacle is reimagined as the empathetic core of a pro-disability message.
Later at K's apartment, he informed Joi of his conclusion that his memory was indeed real. This overjoyed her, as she always believed him to be special, insisting that he now be called "Joe." Unsure, K sought further information and Joi suggested finding the one responsible for creating memories for replicants.
