In my opinion, great movies (especially sci-fi movies) are divided into two types: one is a work that challenges, subverts, and refreshes the audience’s past cognitive level. Dedicating works with broader and perfect effects on the basis of knowledge makes people sigh "It can still be like this."
The 1982 "Blade Runner" belongs to the former, and the 2017 "Blade Runner 2049" belongs to the latter.
The significance of "Blade Runner" is to a large extent that it has opened up the world of "cyberpunk" theme, and raised humanistic speculation about artificial intelligence to a new and unprecedented height...
It’s not easy to make a sequel to this movie, but- directed by Dennis Villeneuve, produced by Ledley Scott (giving enough director freedom), photography by Roger Dickens, Hans Zimmer participates in music production and so on... Even if you don't think about the story, just look at the cast and the design, "Blade Runner 2049" is doomed to be extraordinary.
Bizarre halls, humdrum statues, misty farms, mountains and trash, looming dead cities, dance floors with lights and shadows, treacherous and blurred dark rooms, dream-like phantoms, dead and dead ruins, water mist Enveloping dams, endless wasteland, rainy cities... When you are frightened by one scene, there will always be another scene waiting for you.
In my mind, I have the best movie of this year.
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How great is the main creative team, how the three advanced short films can fill the gap between the two films, "Blade Runner 2049" has the inheritance and re-creation of the previous work, what are the allusions and metaphors in the film... these are all said It's very thorough. Next , I just want to say one thing, which is also the focus of my attention when watching movies: heart and mind, worry, and unforgettable eyes.
The eyes are the windows of the soul. In this series of movies, the eyes are the windows of the "soul". This is also the biggest evidence for distinguishing human beings from clones.
(Blade Runner 2049 and Blade Runner)
It is relatively simple to distinguish Nexus-8 replicas like Saab Morton, because their right eye will have a special serial code, but the "K" played by Commander Gao is a Nexus-9 replica. , Even this feature is gone.
——The point is not this, but the scenes that the characters perform with their eyes in the film. After watching these expressions, the story of the film is basically finished.
Because the film shots are mostly calm, quiet, and long, they test the actors' mastery of facial expressions and body language, so their personal temperament expressions such as their eyes have been further magnified.
For a long time, K was self-denying to do the job of a blade runner. He knew that he was a copy of human identity, and he did not dare to produce unnecessary human-like emotions. It can be seen from his belief that "the created clone has no soul, but the born person has a soul." It can be seen that he subconsciously believes that humans are superior to clones. In the early stage, K's eyes are always calm and unforgiving.
Keeping this in mind, K also inevitably yearns for the "soul" ... Standing on the opposite side of him is the boss, Lieutenant Josh.
Josh, who relies on an iron fist, does things vigorously and vigorously, always without any emotions, "Aren't you fine without a soul?" In his words, Josh even envied K's calmness and carelessness— —Her eyes are much richer, but it can be seen that she is trying to become like K...
In private, she is very interested in K's memories and emotions. She is fascinated by the precise and efficient characteristics of copying people, including "designs that make them more like humans."
The role of Josh, who is on the same line and in different dimensions, is the copy of Rufu. As a capable man under the boss Wallace, she is completely immersed in her true identity and has never shown obvious emotional fluctuations. The expression in the eyes remains unchanged, it is considered a facial paralysis ...
But even so, Rufu still couldn't restrain the physical and psychological "primitive impulse"-she shed tears twice in the film.
For the first time, Wallace inspected and killed the test copy in front of her. Rufu remained motionless behind him, but she shed tears unconsciously. This was due to her fear of her creator .
The second time she went to find Josh for clues about K’s whereabouts. She restrained her easily. After Lu Fu said, "We never lie from (the cloner)", she immediately said "I can say it's you." Forced me to do it", she cried again when she killed Josh, probably because she was surprised that she was as cunning, treacherous and gloomy as a human ...
Until she died, Rufu's eyes hadn't changed much. She was proud of her identity as a copy, and she had been blocking her process of becoming more human.
The more intriguing (rebellious) group of eyes comes from Joey, K, and Mariette. The love between humans and clones is not uncommon. This time even the clones and virtual images are in love...
Although none of them are humans, Joey is more "human-like" than K. She is the most perfect girlfriend image in most men's minds. Her eyes are always full of love for K, or Gu Ling is playful, or Obsessed and distracted... But this is all the "human nature" stipulated by the program.
The most painful "doubts" of the audience when watching the movie mostly came from Joey's infatuation with K. When she cheered that she could go outside with her boyfriend, when she "feeled" the raindrops and wanted to kiss her boyfriend, when she encouraged her boyfriend When accepting another destiny, you don't want to believe that it is all false.
Joey exhausted personal contact that could not be achieved in his life, but "Street Girl" Mariette could easily do it... So one day, Mariette went to K's room.
With such a playful look in her eyes, everyone would think she was an ordinary human, but Mariette was also a clone.
The scene in which Joey and Mariette copulate with K is the best in the film, and it left an indelible impression on me, because the two "persons" cannot be completely synchronized, especially with K. When kissing: Joey's head and neck are slightly slanted and his eyes closed, like a young girl who has just tasted love, touching her lover's lips affectionately, while Mariette opens her eyes with novelty, just like a long-time love veteran. It's interesting to look at the subject's eyebrows...
Which one is real? Both are. In front of K, there are two girlfriends, one true, one true and one false. They all have eyes full of human emotions, even though none of them are real humans.
Based on the two sets of "triangular relationships" in the eyes, you will find that copy people are becoming more and more like humans, intentionally or unintentionally, while humans drive themselves more and more like machines.
After knowing K's identity, the "Mr. Cotton" in the garbage dump mistakenly thought that he was in trouble. He immediately became confused and talking nonsense. He didn't dare to look up and look at people. His eyes were completely lost until he was forced to complete himself. At the time of the mission, this state has not changed...
It just so happens that Morgan, who played the role of Lenny James in "The Walking Dead", had a similar state of being stunned before, and the two characters have quite a common ground, that is, "not like an individual."
The more typical one is Niad Wallace, the big boss , who is even better because he is blind (the actor Leto also wears opaque contact lenses that cannot be seen)... However, Wallace has many Only "eyes", the field of vision is far wider than the pair on the body.
"Alien" was originally designed with eyes removed because "eyes will sell their souls. Without eyes, others will not know what it will do next." ... Wallace is the same, he has no eyes.
Finally, the eyes of the new and old generations of Blade Runner are relatively easy to understand.
At first, Deckard thought that K was here to hunt him, and he didn't leave room for communication between the two. Even if he later found out that he was not an opponent, when he simply had a drink together, his eyes still showed a sense of alertness and incomprehension.
The change of K (or "Joe" should be called) is much more interesting. At this time, he has gradually believed that he is the child born from the copy. He has begun to think that he has a soul. The emotions and emotions released from the heart...So when he looked at the person in front of him who might be his "father", his eyes were full of curiosity and hope.
In the first half, Commander Gao mainly looked up and down, and his eyes rarely focused. Here, when he looked at Deckard, the "light" gathered increased and he became "awe-inspiring."
When all the dust settled, Joe brought the "dead" Deckard to his real child . Dicard, who had been far away from the world for a long time, completely changed his opinion on the prejudiced Nexus-9 . Of course, this was not his look. The only information revealed here, in addition, there is also the perplexity and desire to be able to see the child without any worries...
With more than 30 years of dreams and illusions, Deckard is about to enter the next stage of his life that he has never experienced before.
On the other hand, Qiao has experienced the psychological reversal of "replicators-humans-replicators". This process is by no means useless. He has finally recognized the concept that "replicants can also have love, hatred, and hatred just like humans." At this time, he With frowning eyebrows, his eyes focused on the melting snowflakes in his hands, with deep thinking, like Joey who walked into the rain curtain to feel the raindrops for the first time...
I am willing to believe that Joey's mood and performance when trying to touch the rain at the time is true, just as I believe that Joe's inner feelings are now flesh and blood.
Finally, I end this article with a sentence from my friend:
Maybe Joe died, maybe not. If he died, he died as a human. Furthermore, as an angle.
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