This backstory illustrates how post-apocalyptic fiction, ostensibly concerned with the future, also invites its audiences to grapple with the past. The sequel’s opening titles explain that Wallace has saved humanity by developing synthetic farming and building a new, obedient model of replicant to provide the labor for colonial expansion. Yet despite all its futuristic trappings, Blade Runner 2049 offers a conservative response to these collective fears, calling for a return to an imagined past of whiteness and traditional gender norms. Hurricanes, floods, and droughts threaten our homes and food supplies, making the future seem even less certain.
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This movie arrives at a moment when we are facing the material consequences of climate crisis.
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Her very existence offers new hope for the nascent rebellion as well as for industrialist Niander Wallace (Jared Leto), who yearns to develop a self-reproducing android to exponentially grow his workforce. Since at least one member of that couple is a replicant, their daughter seems like a technological impossibility. Picking up thirty years after the original, Blade Runner 2049 follows K as he investigates the child of Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Rachael (Sean Young). This sterility contrasts with the importance the movie places on reproduction. Dig beneath these enrapturing surfaces, however, and you discover that the world of Blade Runner 2049 is barren. The towering female sex sculptures and the holographic ad for Joi, a computerized housewife, provide pornographic fascination. Other images overwhelm viewers with their stark beauty - the vivid orange air that permeates Las Vegas, Los Angeles’s glittering cityscape, a lone, dead tree on the protein farm, snowflakes that melt on K’s hand. It’s a feast for the eyes, to be sure, but when he lands, we learn that the land only cultivates worms - like a corpse. What does a world after climate catastrophe look like? The opening of Blade Runner 2049 offers one answer: K (Ryan Gosling), a bioengineered being - a replicant, in the franchise’s terminology - charged with hunting down and “retiring” older models, dozes off as his self-driving vehicle flies over a stunning landscape of latticed terraces. This review contains spoilers for Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, and Arrival.
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