After watching countless dog-tailed sequels, this rare sequel, 35 years apart from the original, deserves the reputation of the previous one. It inherited the core of the previous work and expanded to a wider range of areas.
When I watched "Blade Runner" in 2014, I didn't expect that I would have the opportunity to watch this long-awaited sequel on the premiere day of "Blade Runner 2049". The air conditioner in the theater was very cold. As soon as I sat down, I remembered the cold rain in the original work.
Based on the previous work's thinking about human nature, identity recognition, and social discrimination, this work further explores the meaning of fertility and the topic of free will.
In this film, Los Angeles, with its Hong Kong-style streets, becomes the Garden of Eden in the new era: a pair of replicators stealthily ate the forbidden fruit, making it possible to multiply. The female police officer believes that allowing reproduction of humans will destroy the "wall" between humans and humans, and trigger a revolution; Wallace believes that reproduction of humans can solve the problem of insufficient production capacity of the company, and then make it possible for humans to colonize the universe further. ; The group of cloners sees this as a "miracle," making them complete human beings, even more humane than human beings. After having fertility, copy talents can meet the basic definition of "biology" and become "human." There are also several fascinating religious metaphors in this film, which are inconvenient to describe in detail here.
Human beings make clones and use them as slaves with better physical strength and absolute obedience, or machines. In the previous game, Deckard was initially just a cold-blooded blade runner-a stability maintenance tool used by the police station to deal with restless clones, until he met Rachel, and in the pursuit of several clones, in and Rachel gradually discovered her emotional side in her love. Towards the end of the work, Wallace's words make people doubt whether the encounter between Deckard and Rachel was designed, and whether they were the mice in a dangerous experiment? As a tool for interfering with free will, memory implantation technology enables the copying person to settle down and become an obedient slave, which also arouses K's multiple doubts about his identity.
Unlike the previous work, the main stage of this work is located in Los Angeles and its surrounding areas, but the visual style still continues the characteristics of the previous work: endless dense showers, boring thick fog and cold white bleak lights. Between the buildings is a huge interactive panoramic advertisement, and a flying car passes through it. In contrast to advanced technology, the strong sense of wasteland emanating from the location. The color tends to use a single main color, which looks very clean. I especially like the architecture of Wallace's house. In addition, this work is visually more bloody, with a few very dramatic plots just right. Hans Zimmer's soundtrack is full of tension, and the tension is very well set. You will experience the feeling of jumping at the center of the electronic sound that gradually rises in pitch. Yes, it's the taste of "Arrival".
Some interesting details:
-Sony is still working hard to advertise for itself. What is more surprising is that Atari's face appeared in the huge holographic billboard on the street, and the holographic projection of Elvis on the stage flashed by, which can be said to be very retro-futuristic. .
-There is a prop at the beginning that pays tribute to the "Minority Report". A product purchased by K pays tribute to "her".
-The penetration of Japanese elements in this film has increased. Most of the slogans in LAPD contained Japanese. The DNA database search machine used by K even played Japanese voice, but it was displayed in English on the screen. On the Wallace side, the origins of architectural style, clothing, and a cut that resemble abdomen are also very obvious. A more extreme example is the recent Hollywood "Ghost in the Shell", Hong Kong-style architecture and climate, Japanese-style text and culture, and a Western-style cyberpunk core.
-Characters can freely use different languages for smooth dialogue, which means that the voice translation system has become popular.
There are also shortcomings. There are many plot lines, and the direction is slightly scattered, but most of them are not fully explained, which is a bit regrettable. On the one hand, it can also be regarded as a blank space. After all, the screen time of two and a half hours is limited.
2017.10.5 at Sha Tin
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