Whether Harison Ford’s character is a replicant has far-reaching implications for the film series — and for what it says about our own society.
todayOctober 9, 2017
Is Harrison Ford’s Blade Runner character a replicant or a human? It’s a a question that has spawned years of impassioned fan debate, though the answer was not all that important within the world of 1982’s Blade Runner for people besides Deckard himself. Blade Runner 2049 does not answer the Deckard question, but it does turn it into a matter with far-reaching implications, not only for the film, but what it says about our own society.
In Blade Runner 2049, replicant blade runner Officer K (Ryan Gosling) is volleyed between a number of parties with different agendas all searching for a child “miraculously” born to the replicant Rachael almost thirty years prior and Deckard. K’s boss, Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright), fears knowledge of the child’s existence could lead to a literal societal collapse. Meanwhile, Freysa (Hiam Abbass) and her burgeoning replicant rebellion see the child as a figurehead for their movement. Finally, industrialist Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) sees the child as the key to discovering how to make a self-replenishing replicant population capable of exponential growth, a secret that the original film’s Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel) had unlocked shortly before his death only for that knowledge to be lost due to a technological black-out.
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