The endless downpour, smog, ruins, cold, desperate eyes... Many times there is no need for bloody and violent scenes, Just the absence of flowers, plants and trees can give people the feeling of the end of the world. The film "Blade Runner 2049" (Blade Runner 2049) has a very slow pace, a lot of details (I saw some parts, and later found that I missed a lot), and it's heavy enough to make people feel very immersive. For a split second it was as if K was himself, or that Dr. Ana Stelline was himself.
The Terry Company has created a group of replicants. These people have strong abilities and are in many ways the same as real people, but they are "not real people", and they were originally born to become slaves of the creators. The previous generation of replicants with a sense of freedom wanted to launch the "War of Independence", and in the end they were undoubtedly hit hard by the fate of being expelled by humans. Speaking of slaves, it's not uncommon for humans to see or coerce themselves into slaves. Like the black slaves in the United States in the past, the eunuchs and palace maids in the feudal era of China, the servants of wealthy families in many places, etc. At that time, many people could not choose. From birth, they were branded as slaves, deprived of personal freedom, and arbitrarily ordered by "masters" and "superior", generation after generation, in a vicious circle. Therefore, seeing the human beings in the movie treat the replicas they created as slaves, it can be said that it does not deviate from the logic of human nature at all. It's just that, because of this naked truth, it feels even more creepy. The movie projects a macroscopic world that reaches deep into people's hearts. Every shot is digging the darkness of human psychology bit by bit: they believe that the same kind should rule the world, that all species should serve themselves, and that they stand At the very top of the species pyramid, hubris is reckless—a terrifying bottomless pit.
Later, the earlier generations of Replicants at Terry's became more and more out of control, and with the blackout in 2022, humanity announced an indefinite ban on the production of Replicants. How is it that we have spent a lot of resources to develop DNA cloning technology - I checked it with a search engine - and finally human beings have found that these technologies have led to some serious negative effects, so the 59th United Nations General Assembly A political declaration was adopted that "requests all countries to prohibit any form of human cloning that is contrary to human dignity". Listen, the words "political declaration" and "violating human dignity" are not unfamiliar at all, and they are not "scientific" at all, but they show the selfishness and arrogance of human beings all along. It can be said that the "Blade Runner" series projected that human beings recklessly pursue technological development and species power, which led to the destruction of many balances, and then produced an out of control "consequence". Wallace of the United States acquired the Terry Company after the blackout and developed a chain of No. 9 clones, claiming that these clones were more "loyal", "dominated" and more capable. The Los Angeles Police Department has reactivated Blade Runner to hunt down old replicants defined as "out of control". Let the replicators kill the replicators and kill each other, how cruel and violent. How many bizarre power games are hidden under the hypocritical mask of the so-called "maintenance of order"? Those who block human beings, should they die? The national cleansing carried out by Nazi Germany in World War II, the Nanjing Massacre in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the racial discrimination throughout human history, are exactly the same as the slaughter in the movie in order to prevent the clones from being dominated. They are all brutal acts committed by one group in an attempt to arbitrarily dominate or even exterminate another group.
By 2049, Los Angeles is already gray and lifeless. Except for the abundance of high-tech products, there is no trace of nature in sight.
Officer K was assigned by the Los Angeles Police Department to clean up the former clones. Sapper Morton is a Chain 8 clone who used to be a military doctor. The identity was revealed during a rescue operation. For many years he was isolated from humans, living alone in a ruin, self-sustaining by farming. He seemed to have expected K's arrival. When K asked him why he was struggling to survive, Saper only said, "You haven't seen a miracle at all." Saper was still doomed. When handling the items, K found a pair of corpses carefully hidden in the humble house, 6-10-21 was engraved under the dead tree outside Saper's house, and there was the only remaining daisy near the number. The tree was withered, and the color was the same as Saper's fate, very gloomy. Is the flower alive or withered? This seems to mean that a life miraculously survived back then, fighting for something. K was stunned. There are not many childhood memories left in his mind - but he clearly remembers that his father made him a wooden horse with his birthday engraved on it, October 6, 2021. But before the replicas leave the factory, a memory will be implanted. K is not sure whether the memory is implanted or if it really happened. Because of this "coincidence", he decides to check it out. Following the clues, he found that the skeleton was a pregnant woman with the serial number of the replicator before the blackout, and the information given by the DNA library and the replicator archive database was: the child's whereabouts are unknown, and the father is the former blade runner Rick Deckard , and has retired to nowhere. On this day, K received orders to obey the benchmark test as usual, and entered the police station to accept the assignment from his superiors, but because of the change in his identity, he felt a great shock in his heart. The setting of the story is that except for obeying orders and being infertile, replicants are no different from ordinary people. And a miracle happened, the clone and the clone had a child. This child is likely to be K himself. When the movie saw this moment, I put myself in the role of K. Thinking about this tiny possibility is still tangled and contradictory. If the memory is not implanted but actually happens, then I am the child. As a new generation of replicators who have received obedience training, and as a hunter for the previous generation of replicants, I found that I was very likely to be the offspring of two replicants without serial numbers, without the imprint of replicants, a real, An individual with a soul. What a shock that must have been! Even if the memory is implanted, the string of numbers has something to do with it, and it won't be a mere coincidence. Where are the real clones? What does this body indistinguishable from a human mean? I would doubt my identity, and I would be annoyed by what I had done, and my worldview would collapse, but my sense of mission would definitely increase.
The representative of human forces - Los Angeles Police Department police officer Josh (Joshi) does not know K's memory, in order to maintain the order of humans and replicators and avoid triggering a replicator uprising, of course, I hope that K can find his father and children and eradicate them together. Avoid future troubles. The representative of the new generation of replicants, the Wallace Company (also ignorant of K's memory), tried to rely on K to capture the father and child at all costs, conduct anatomical research, and explore the secrets of the reproduction of the previous generation of replicators. What about the previous clones?
Rick Deckard, a former Blade Runner, fell in love with his partner, Chain 6 clone Rachel, fell in love, and gave birth to a daughter. Saper has military medical experience and was the doctor who gave Rachel a caesarean section. Unfortunately, Rachel died of dystocia in the end. In order to protect their daughter, Deckard and Saper decide to put her daughter in an orphanage, and they have disappeared from each other since then. "Sometimes to love a person is to treat him as a stranger." From Rick Decker's heartfelt admiration for children. He didn't know that his daughter Anna had been isolated because of Galatia Syndrome since she was 8 years old, so she had to "entertain herself" for a long time - to achieve this through imaginative details. But because of her ability, she later became a female doctor who helped Wallace Company build memories. By chance, she implanted the memory of the Trojan horse engraved with the birthday into the chain No. 9 replicator K. The movie is so poignant here. After K discovered the set of numbers, he couldn't wait to find Anna Sterling, a female doctor of memory construction, and wanted to confirm whether the memory was real. Anna is in the quarantine zone. She is creating many beautiful memories through technological equipment. The nature she portrays is very beautiful, which is completely different from Los Angeles in 2049, but similar to the daisies in front of the dead tree at Saper's house. Afterwards, the scene of the child blowing out the candles to celebrate the birthday and preparing to eat the cake was made. When Anna saw K's memory, she burst into tears. I didn't know why at first, but when I found out that Deckard and Rachel's child was a girl, it suddenly dawned on me. The memory is implicitly implanted in the hearts of the new generation of replicants, and with the remaining beliefs, the replicators are driven to persevere for the sake of the same kind.
I don't think about it at the moment, oh, is there any big win? No, I was actually very hopeless and pessimistic when watching the movie. I felt that the weak had little chance, and it was difficult to talk about success - this movie is really not very commercial. Another profound aspect is that there is no special aura of the protagonist (such as special skills, such as surviving the catastrophe), but instead uncovers the scars of vulnerable groups, making them feel as real: sacrifice of sacrifice, hiding of hiding, loneliness Fighting alone, there is no blessing from the god of luck. In addition, the price of "success" is too high. Even if they do succeed in the end, they may not be able to usher in the results that are consistent with their original intentions. What will happen after independence? What kind of relationship do you want to maintain with humans? What about us, our world, is our species fictional? History has been processed, beautification and ugliness are not done by our hands. There is no absolute truth, and no unbreakable evidence. In the movie, the replicants who are being driven to death by humans seem to have no choice. Replicants supported by faith are more steadfast than humans supported by desires!
PS, I want to remember this sentence: "Sometimes to love someone is to treat him as a stranger." - Rick Decker to his daughter Anna.
Looking forward to the sequel. I hope to continue not to follow the commercial blockbuster routine.
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