Faithful to the Blade Runner movie universe. Thirty years after the events occurring in the 1982 film BLADE RUNNER, the adventure rapidly unfurls from 30th June 2049, set in an alternate universe in which in the 2010s synthetic humans were developed to exploit non-earth-like planets. There is so much to contemplate, and to discuss after the screening.
The USD$185 million production has special effects that are impeccable, and easily allow you to suspend disbelief, and include many stop-and-point stunning sequences that blur the line, between reality and unreality.
Constant K (Joe) is an adult manufactured replicant human slave, with serial number KD6-3.7, and has been manufactured to be completely unable to lie. He is gainfully employed by the Los Angeles Police Department as a blade runner (LAPD bounty hunter) who is tasked with “retiring” (i.e. always shoot-to-kill) escaped obsolete models Nexus-6,7,8 replicant human slaves.
Nexus-6,7,8 replicant slaves stopped obeying their off-world human masters, and violently went rogue a long time after their creation, and started killing their human masters. In 2049 in this alternate universe, we follow blade runner KD6-3.7 and his gradual acceptance of the new reality that now requires him to retire a human, causes a new ability to beat his brainwashing, and he learns to lie by omission, and lie by exaggeration. (Spock from Star Trek, also learned the need for the same skills).
Of course everyone who sees BLADE RUNNER 2049, has a different experience, leading to different interpretations of the dialogue heard and the moving images, and to quote blade runner KD6-3.7 “All the best memories are hers”. Constant K (Joe) is but one of several million adult manufactured replicant human slaves that obey and do not run away. All have been implanted with identical memories of the same non-existent childhood, including the wooden horse figurine as a “Trojan Horse” within the many childhood memories provided by Doctor Ana Stelline.
SPOILERS: The TRITIUM radiation from the wooden horse figurine (the Trojan Horse) leads blade runner KD6-3.7 (Ryan Gosling) directly to where Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) has been hiding for almost thirty years, but Rick Deckard has been on the run and was already in hiding long before the birth event on 10th June 2021. So exactly how did the child being chased when at the orphanage, get the wooden horse figurine dated 10.6.21; and subsequently hide it?
SPOILERS: Either someone else transported the wooden horse figurine from Deckard to the orphanage, or perhaps Rick Deckard left the wooden horse figurine with pregnant Rachael (N6FAA52318) as a unique gift for their child, or there is a large plot hole here. “There never ever is a reason to lie, even as the blunt truth usually hurts” however the movie contains absolutely no dialogue that in any way details the actual means and actual methods of transportation of the wooden horse figurine (the Trojan Horse), so there is a large plot hole here.
The superb 3D Stereoscopic version created in post-production for Blade Runner 2049 is unique and immaculate, incredibly crisp, bright and sharp, and now becomes added to my short list of feature length 3D movies, films that you must see in 3D before you die. Blade Runner 2049 has superb visual events that are completely impossible to film in-camera, including snow falling inside the cinema, has snow falling from the cinema into the screen, has fire-embers falling from the cinema into the screen, has both rain and water immediately in front of you. Reflections from opaque surfaces are always photo-realistic, greatly improving the atmospheric nature of the images experienced. And yes, it now snows heavily, during July 2049 in Los Angeles. Unlike some other 3D movies, the 3D prints for this movie film are crisp, bright and sharp.
Entertaining science fiction adventure drama, and quite fast-paced 164 minutes. GDPR. Highly recommended.
Directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Dave Bautista, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Edward James Olmos, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista.
This cinematic adaptation, is loosely based on the 1968 book “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K. Dick.
My short list of feature length 3D movies, films that you must see in 3D before you die – – –
Hitchcock’s “Dial M For Murder” (1954)
Cameron’s “Avatar” (2009)
Scorcese’s “Hugo” (2011)
Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049” (2017)
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/blade-runner-2049
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