My Thoughts On Blade Runner 2049
My Thoughts On Blade Runner 2049 (Spoilers).
So today I decided to finally talk about Blade Runner 2049 since I've have time for it to sink in. Right off the bat Imma just tell you that I loved the movie and think it's a great sequel/independent film from the original. If you haven't seen it yet, which apparently a lot of people haven't since it's doing a but poorly at the box office, I highly recommend you go see it, at least give it a chance because it's a great original film. Now, when I say original film, yes, I do understand it's a sequel, but you don't necessarily have to have seen The original Blade Runner in order to watch this new one. This new movie is set in the Blade Runner world and does have characters from the original like Deckard, Gaff, and Rachel, but it does great as a standalone movie.
There are so many things I want to talk about so I guess first, I'll talk about the film overall. The movie is almost three hours long and at some points I did feel the length of it, but by the end, you realize how important every scene was in the film. Dennis Villeneuve did make a slow-burn type of movie that really makes you pay attention in order to get all the underlying themes to it. One of the many things I wanted to talk about is the performances, I'm not much of a fan of Ryan Gosling, I don't really go out of my way to watch his movies but what I've seen him in like The Place Beyond The Pines, Drive, and Crazy, Stupid, Love, he seemed to be really good in. I think this is his best performance I've seen from him because in the movie he plays a replicant that is looked down upon by most of police force because of that, and his character starts off as disattached, but you can see some kind of curiousisty and want for something more, inside his character, and as the story unravels, he becomes more human than human.
You see his character in the beginning of the movie is hunting down old replicants, he hunts down Dave Bautista's character who I think is a Nexus 8 model, which they are supposed to be retired (killed). In hunting him down Officer K (Ryan Gosling's character) starts to unravel this secret that will break the world. The secret is that Rachel's character from the original Blade Runner had a child with Deckard, which is supposed to be impossible because Rachel is a replicant, and replicants can't reproduce. So from then on he is tasked by Robin Wright's character who's the head of the LAPD, to find this child and kill it, because if that knowledge was to get out, it will destroy the world they live in. The reason being is because people still see replicants, as machines who can't be considered human, but by this child being born from a replicant, than what separates man from machine?
That is one of the many questions in Blade Runner 2049 and it's very interesting because what does separate man from machine? If a replicant truly believes that it's in love, or has memories that are not their own, but they still express emotions and apparently can have children, how are they different from us? So from then on Officer K leads his own investigation trying to uncover this truth of a possible child. The other performances are great, Harrison Ford as Deckard was awesome, you really feel the emotion at the end when he finally sees his daughter, who he had to stay away from because he endangered everyone he came close to. Then also when Wallace who is the head of the new replicant corporation creates a clone of Rachel and what he out Harrison Ford through at that moment was intense and had so much fan service, but it made us feel so bad for Deckard and that he had to go through that. I mean the fact that I see this world as such a real place speaks volumes to what Villeneuve did with this film.
There are so many underlying themes that it makes the movie so rewatchable in my opinion, but I do understand that asking a person to sit down and pay attention for three hours is asking a lot, hence why the movie isn't doing so good at the Box Office as of this blog. I really do hope that Blade Runner 2049 gets a sequel, but I'm okay if this is the last film because it really does feel like a standalone movie. I also really like the new way they do the Voight-Kompff and that scene with Officer K in the white room had so much tension with just the back shot of him. So to wrap up this blog I want to talk about the ending, to me when Officer K was asked why he helped Deckard find his daughter and he just tells him to go meet her. I felt like for Officer K, he finally found the meaning to his life, that this whole mystery he solved was his meaning to life and in doing so he finally felt human. So to me that was really awesome, now to what Deckards daughter's importance to this Blade Runner world is. She is living proof that replicants are something more than just robots, they are human, and I liked that they didn't explain whether Deckard is a replicant or not so therefore we don't know exactly how the child was born, and that adds something that is magnificently unexplainable, that there is something more to life than humans and replicants. That's what the ending meant to me and it was just so beautiful in the way Villeneuve executed it. As always thank you for taking time out of your day to read this topic I discussed.
So today I decided to finally talk about Blade Runner 2049 since I've have time for it to sink in. Right off the bat Imma just tell you that I loved the movie and think it's a great sequel/independent film from the original. If you haven't seen it yet, which apparently a lot of people haven't since it's doing a but poorly at the box office, I highly recommend you go see it, at least give it a chance because it's a great original film. Now, when I say original film, yes, I do understand it's a sequel, but you don't necessarily have to have seen The original Blade Runner in order to watch this new one. This new movie is set in the Blade Runner world and does have characters from the original like Deckard, Gaff, and Rachel, but it does great as a standalone movie.
There are so many things I want to talk about so I guess first, I'll talk about the film overall. The movie is almost three hours long and at some points I did feel the length of it, but by the end, you realize how important every scene was in the film. Dennis Villeneuve did make a slow-burn type of movie that really makes you pay attention in order to get all the underlying themes to it. One of the many things I wanted to talk about is the performances, I'm not much of a fan of Ryan Gosling, I don't really go out of my way to watch his movies but what I've seen him in like The Place Beyond The Pines, Drive, and Crazy, Stupid, Love, he seemed to be really good in. I think this is his best performance I've seen from him because in the movie he plays a replicant that is looked down upon by most of police force because of that, and his character starts off as disattached, but you can see some kind of curiousisty and want for something more, inside his character, and as the story unravels, he becomes more human than human.
You see his character in the beginning of the movie is hunting down old replicants, he hunts down Dave Bautista's character who I think is a Nexus 8 model, which they are supposed to be retired (killed). In hunting him down Officer K (Ryan Gosling's character) starts to unravel this secret that will break the world. The secret is that Rachel's character from the original Blade Runner had a child with Deckard, which is supposed to be impossible because Rachel is a replicant, and replicants can't reproduce. So from then on he is tasked by Robin Wright's character who's the head of the LAPD, to find this child and kill it, because if that knowledge was to get out, it will destroy the world they live in. The reason being is because people still see replicants, as machines who can't be considered human, but by this child being born from a replicant, than what separates man from machine?
That is one of the many questions in Blade Runner 2049 and it's very interesting because what does separate man from machine? If a replicant truly believes that it's in love, or has memories that are not their own, but they still express emotions and apparently can have children, how are they different from us? So from then on Officer K leads his own investigation trying to uncover this truth of a possible child. The other performances are great, Harrison Ford as Deckard was awesome, you really feel the emotion at the end when he finally sees his daughter, who he had to stay away from because he endangered everyone he came close to. Then also when Wallace who is the head of the new replicant corporation creates a clone of Rachel and what he out Harrison Ford through at that moment was intense and had so much fan service, but it made us feel so bad for Deckard and that he had to go through that. I mean the fact that I see this world as such a real place speaks volumes to what Villeneuve did with this film.
There are so many underlying themes that it makes the movie so rewatchable in my opinion, but I do understand that asking a person to sit down and pay attention for three hours is asking a lot, hence why the movie isn't doing so good at the Box Office as of this blog. I really do hope that Blade Runner 2049 gets a sequel, but I'm okay if this is the last film because it really does feel like a standalone movie. I also really like the new way they do the Voight-Kompff and that scene with Officer K in the white room had so much tension with just the back shot of him. So to wrap up this blog I want to talk about the ending, to me when Officer K was asked why he helped Deckard find his daughter and he just tells him to go meet her. I felt like for Officer K, he finally found the meaning to his life, that this whole mystery he solved was his meaning to life and in doing so he finally felt human. So to me that was really awesome, now to what Deckards daughter's importance to this Blade Runner world is. She is living proof that replicants are something more than just robots, they are human, and I liked that they didn't explain whether Deckard is a replicant or not so therefore we don't know exactly how the child was born, and that adds something that is magnificently unexplainable, that there is something more to life than humans and replicants. That's what the ending meant to me and it was just so beautiful in the way Villeneuve executed it. As always thank you for taking time out of your day to read this topic I discussed.
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