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Blade Runner 2049' is the Best Cyberpunk Film Since: K/Joe discovers that his supposedly fake memories of a lost wooden horse (unicorn reference?) are in fact real, and belong to the child of Deckard and Rachel, and so both he and the audience assume he is the child. As it is eventually revealed, his memory was that of Deckard's daughter, the subcontracted memory artist who helped him determine that his memories aren't manufactured. The Memory Maker Scene. She knew it was illegal to plant real memories in replicants and she couldn't tell him ... a real/bad memory; ended up in such an elite position, in a bubble, making memories. The daughter (Dr. Ana Stelline) creates memories for replicants. While she tells K that it's illegal to implant human memories in replicants, she also explains artists put a bit of themselves in their work and suggests it's why the memories she creates feel so authentic (and are in such high demand). And when she sees one of K's memories (possibly that of the wooden horse), she cries and then confirms it's real. Ana implanted her own memories or possibly fragments of them (including, or maybe exclusively, the horse memory) in replicants, and K is one of them. She recognizes K's memory as her own. That's why she cries but isn't surprised by this and says nothing else. [Another theory that's been floating around is that K, who was pretty much a walking decoy since Ana's DNA was falsely registered as his own, was also intentionally implanted with her memories to further throw people off the scent. I'm not sure about that because 1. The line about artists injecting a bit of themselves was looped when K realizes Ana was the child all along, and 2. There's a scene with Mariette, the replicant hooker who merged with Joi to sleep with K, waking up after the fact and examining the horse, seemingly recognizing it; It hints she might have that memory as well.] The two make their way to the memory-making facility where K has figured out that Dr. Ana Stelline (Carla Juri) is Deckard’s daughter. K made this realization after piecing together that his “memories” of the horse and fighting off bullies wasn’t his childhood but Ana’s. Because Deckard obscured the records, because of the blackout in 2022, and because of her auto-immune condition (which she may or may not actually have, but could have been an excuse to protect her) that kept her indoors, Ana has remained safe but also ignorant of her true parentage. An important metric, as a self-proclaimed cyberpunk, is that the film would be true to the essence of thegenre cyberpunk. Blade Runner 2049 more than simply displaying the trappings of cyberpunk aesthetics, is cyberpunk on the nose, but more than that, it is a matured and an evolved form of the genre cyberpunk. Visually, the movie is brought up to date, but not at the expense of narrative. The visuals are true to modern cyberpunk visual style, but also hold meaning within the story itself. In this sci fi movie the story opens in 2049, thirty years after the events of the first film. An on-screen text states that the Tyrell Corporation has collapsed decades before, in the wake of violent revolts involving their Nexus-6 through -8 Replicants, forcing the company into bankruptcy. After the world's ecosystems collapsed in the mid 2020s, famine swept the Earth, killing millions. With his invention of synthetic farming, a wealthy businessman named Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) ended food shortages and acquired Tyrell's remaining assets to form his own corporation. The Wallace Company has reinvigorated the Replicant industry by mass producing the Nexus-9 Replicants, a new generation of artificial humans with modified behavior to make them more obedient than the older models. These Replicants have implanted memories and open-ended lifespans, and are still used for slave labor on the off-world colonies (the Moon, Mars, and the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, etc.), but some are also used as Blade Runner units, hunting down and “retiring“ the few remaining older model Replicants that are still at large. Director: Denis Villeneuve Writers: Hampton Fancher (screenplay by), Michael Green (screenplay by) Cast: Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Mark Arnold, Vilma Szécsi, Ana de Armas, Wood Harris, David Dastmalchian, Tómas Lemarquis, Edward James Olmos, Jared Leto, Harrison Ford, Lennie James Production Companies Alcon Entertainment lcon Entertainment Columbia Pictures Sony Torridon Films 16:14 Entertainment Scott Free Productions Babieka (Production Service: Spain) Thunderbird Entertainment (as Thunderbird Films) blade runner prostitutes #bladerunner #bladerunner2049 #2049 #bladerunner2049endin #sceneending #ryangosling #sylviahoeks #anadearmas #harrisonford #denisvilleneuve #hamptonfancher #fi #fimovie #movie #replicant #wallacecompany #michaelgreen #davebautista #sciencefiction #scifi #cyberpunk Twitter: @Recall37066525
