So what if it flopped at the box office, it's still a great movie

I thought "Blade Runner 2049" would be a hit at the box office, but I didn't expect it to be that bad. Less than a week after it was released, the film schedule and attendance were lagging behind "Global Storm". In many screenings, only one or two people even watched it. Not only that, but the film, billed as the best science fiction film of the year, was ridiculed on the Chinese film rating website Maoyan. It's lengthy, procrastinating, and has no new ideas. On Maoyan, its rating was even lower than director Bi Zhifei's "Masterpiece" "Pure Heart." In contrast to K's injury and death in the movie, the controversy caused by "Blade Runner 2049" may be the most ironic story in the film industry this year. Succession: Another masterpiece in the cyberpunk world After watching "Blade Runner 2049", I was reluctant to leave. It was all fake, but he fell into an indescribable depression. It feels like walking out of a huge maze, or like a big dream, walking into a sad city. All the feelings are true, but they are lies. If the text itself is fiction, then the movie and even all artistic behaviors are inherently scams. But as an audience, I am just like K in the movie, not knowing how to face this truth based on lies.

Blade Runner 2049

This is not the greatest kind of movie. To put it bluntly, its ideological and textual basis come from Kafka and Ridley Scott. , Nabokov, and even in the tradition of Christian literature, its typical cyberpunk style is only the successor to the first one. Villeneuve was a skilled dancer, but Ridley Scott and his team had already built the dance floor and designed the routine, and it was the newcomer's job to follow through. He is not like Cameron, who drastically modified the world designed by Scott ("Alien 2" has many changes to the settings of "Alien 1"), he is Scott's devout successor. It's a stunning sequel, but not innovative enough.

Many details can illustrate the film’s inheritance from its predecessor. For example, in terms of story, it is another story of Blade Runner chasing down clones, and another "reflection" between the killer and the clones. In terms of style and theme, "Blade Runner 2049" is also very similar to the first film. Cyberpunk is still strong. In addition to the cold and humid urban Los Angeles, "Blade Runner 2049" has added the desert ruins filled with yellow sand after the "nuclear explosion". And when the replicant leader told K in the ruins that they were their masters and that they were going to revolution, we could not only recall the previous work, but also think of another classic series "Alien" by Scott.

"Blade Runner 2049" and the "Alien" series have one thing in common, and that is "transgression" - transgressing the "master" and becoming one's own master. In "Alien", the Creator created humans and aliens, and humans and aliens combined, once giving birth to new and better aliens. Humans want to find the Creator, and new aliens are overtaking humans and the alien matrix. In "Blade Runner 2049", humans create clones, and they take life and death. The clones are controlled by humans until they want to be their own masters, start to escape, and start to brew a revolution. Both the "Blade Runner" series and the "Alien" series depict the future earth as dark and desolate. In "Alien 4", the combination of human and alien, Rapley and the clone Cole return to Earth. This human hometown has been completely changed beyond recognition, full of ruins, and the Eiffel Tower is leaning in the fire. In the world designed by "Blade Runner", there are long nights and continuous rain. The bustling Los Angeles is dirty and humid, and under the heavy fog is a slum area of ??scrap metal and metal. The so-called superior people have immigrated to alien planets, and only the old, weak, sick and disabled remain on Earth. In this repressive world, replicants are controlled by human monopolies headed by Wallace Company, but whether they are escapees or Love within Wallace Company, they have developed a sense of rebellion, just like in "Alien" What the series reveals is that the created will eventually rebel and transgress the Creator, and achieve their own transcendence on the basis of destroying the Creator. Its internal logic is: the Creator will not allow his products to be equal to himself, and the latter with consciousness will not be willing to be dominated.

In the "Alien" series, the process of mankind boldly exploring the universe is like a process of searching for roots. Human beings are curious about where they come from and whether there is a so-called creator in the vast universe. Human beings' bold interstellar adventures and colonization finally return to the ancient and classic theme-know yourself. K in "Blade Runner 2049" is also a lonely root seeker. He originally thought that he was just a simple replicator. He was taught that he did not need to have a soul and only needed to complete tasks. However, he started an operation to hunt replicants. He doubted his own origin, and even once thought that he was that miracle - the offspring of a clone and a human. It turned out that it was all a scam and that I was not that special after all. What an existential story this is.