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Monday, January 29, 2018

Bladerunner 2049 (2017)

I highly recommend re-watching Bladerunner before you watch this, because even with that immediacy, there are some dots that remain hard to connect.  I hadn't seen the original since my second son was born, and let's just say that while I have offspring, none of them remain children.  It was some time ago and truthfully, some of it still seemed like I was seeing it for the first time.  The one amazing thing is that Harrison Ford has aged remarkably well.
So, thirty years on, the world has gotten no less dystopian.  Ryan Gosling is a cop with no more back up than Ford had in the first movie.  He has a robot girlfriend, much like his predecessor.  As one of my aforementioned kids said, does Ryan Gosling tend towards imaginary girlfriends? He is sent to find a missing child, one that is highly sought after because it would represent the only successful reproduction of a robot with a human, and so that child is in grave danger, and he comes to think that he might be that child.  There is a lot of gloom and doom and very unpleasant characters, with some action thrown in.  Well worth watching.

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