Blade Runner 2049 is a religious experience.
I crawled out of bed and got a coffee IV drip to watch Blade Runner 2049 at the cinema. Now children below 18, go away and play with your toys.
Are they gone?
Holy fuck Blade Runner 2049 is beautiful.
I don’t mean pretty visuals beautiful, I mean sublime. I mean tears and snot in rain. I mean attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
It takes Philip K. Dick’s question about what it means to be human and walks it through Milton and Chris Marker, Stalker and Children of Men. My brain is in a different timezone so pardon my incoherence.
It is church for atheists. I’m going to see it in theaters as many times as I can.
It’s about an individual (He even has the same initial as one of Kafka’s protagonists) who leads a lonely, pointless existence made bearable by artificial entertainments, who suddenly realizes that his life could mean something. But he must make a choice.
If it’s a diversion from life that you want, maybe go see something else. This is a movie that asks: Are you human, or are you a drone?
Now returning to stasis.
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October 12th, 2017 at 20:08
Hope another sequel would be made sooner than later. Cross fingers this one earns more.
October 13th, 2017 at 14:57
Yass! I was like, “Ooh, Kafkaesque,” when Ryan’s replicant’s name was called. And that Hans Zimmer track!
Medyo “shade” yung pagkaka-puri ni Harrison kay Ryan as “perfect” for the role. Dahil ba expressionless ang fez ni Ryan?
https://youtu.be/u5wIuTTYqzI
Love ko na si Villeneuve.
October 13th, 2017 at 16:07
balqis: I usually loathe Hans Zimmer, but this soundtrack is true to the original by synth maister Vangelis. I think Gosling IS perfect for the role because the still surface suggests emotional turbulence below. He’s Pinocchio wanting to be a real boy.
The big surprise is how Dave Bautista can carry an air of tragedy. Drax can act.
Villeneuve is attached to my favorite SF novel, Dune. A brilliant choice, I think. He will need a screenwriter with a finely-calibrated madness.
October 13th, 2017 at 16:12
wangbumaximus21: I don’t mind that it is underperforming commercially–it goes to show that this kind of existential SF melancholy noir is not for everyone and will not be monetized to oblivion. I do not want a K action figure, I have Marvel movies for that. Remember that the first movie was a commercial flop that went on to define how we dream of the future. See it again. I will.
October 15th, 2017 at 02:03
I am fully aware of its predecessor’s commercial failure and its slow ascendancy to its cult classic status. I am only hope the sequel breaks-even, to wish the least. I feel Blade Runner deserves a closure. Even an existentialist tale has an ending, absurdly or polarizing it may be.
And, Batista’s acting chops are way superior than The Rock (but Dwayne’s lots of charisma and charm), just don’t give Dave a rom-com role.