I watched this movie on the last release day of Blade Runner 2049 in Xiamen. The first time I watched a morning movie, I felt pretty good. I thought I would book the show, but there were eight people in the entire movie theater. Most people watch movies alone like me, so the movie-watching experience is good.
What impressed me deeply in the film is the process of the protagonist K's consciousness awakening and collapse. In the beginning, when the old model replica Sapper asked him why he was killing each other of the same kind, his answer was that he would not run away, so he would not be killed. At that time, K was a dutiful and innocent copy person. He knew his life experience, but he didn't want to think about it. He just completed the work mechanically. However, judging from the reactions of colleagues around the clones, this society uses the wisdom and power of clones while despising their soulless bodies. While investigating the corpse of the pregnant clone behind the dead Sappor, K began his consciousness awakening. When an AI began to doubt his identity, he returned to the eternal question: [who am I] At that time, irreversible changes began.
Although there will inevitably be pain and despair when digging out one's own life experience, there is also joy. Because this kind of pain is even more real for AI. When he finally found out that his memories really existed and that he was not a fake, joy and fear erupted instantly, and K rushed out of the room out of control, the movie reached its climax. And in the end, when he knew that he was not the clone's bead, the world collapsed again. He thought he had gotten rid of the shadow of fake, and he didn't think that it was still a chess piece in the end. But the consciousness has been awakened. As an out-of-control clone, he was brutally isolated between the two worlds, and suddenly became nobody again.
Joy, the female copyist used for comfort and service in the film, is a character I particularly like. It can be said that she played a big role in K's awakening. In the beginning, K saw the irony of the world from her. A cloner bought a robot and could only see herself in the eyes of humans from her: soulless, false, manipulable, and can be deactivated and discarded at any time. But she was also his only consolation, so when Joey formulaically asked himself to pour her a glass of wine, he really used two glasses, although he drank all the wine in the end. She is also willing to spend money to show her appearance and bring her by her side. In the end, his self-sacrificing ending may also be an imitation and tribute to Joey.
Such self-sacrifice in the film does not only appear on Joey and K. Sappor, Dyke, and Freisa all have different degrees of self-sacrifice. My understanding is that as cloners, they cannot control their lives, but for death, it is better to give it more meaning than to be taken away by humans at will. For love, family affection, or more ambitious, copy the future of mankind. This self-destructive beauty with a tragic color is a swan song to defend one's freedom and humanity.
This movie is often desperate and depressing, but from time to time there will be warm sparks bursting into the torrent of despair. Although it is very faint, it is beautiful. When Joey said "Like a real girl", I actually shed tears. The fact that a human has empathy due to AI's love is quite illusory.
When I walked out of the theater, I thought about why the copying person in the film would "More human than human". Perhaps it is because we are much less confused and crisis-conscious about our identity than AI. But in fact, what is the difference between humans created by humans and us created by higher creators?
Fear? Congratulations, your consciousness is awakened.
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