Throughout the film, K will be in the center of a suffocating world, filled with false victories.
Paranoia will set in and he won't know who to trust.
As a viewer, we will question Joi. She may have been planted by Wallace.
She may only do things based on suggestions made by K.
K could retire her or Wallace could leverage this relationship and force K to pull the trigger. "Would you kindly?" If you played Bioshock, you know the outcome to this scene.
Andrew Ryan, the leader of an entire city beckons the main character to decide his fate. The trigger phrase for the main character is "would you kindly."
After saying this, you can manipulate every action. So Andrew Ryan hands the main character a golf club and says, "Would you kindly kill."
Gasping for air, he screams,"a man chooses, a slave obeys." as if to try an break through the programming. As if to try to save himself from programmed murder.
The main character has no choice but to follow his programming. Andrew Ryan dies and you're left wondering if you went through the entire game doing things on your own or were simply programmed to do everything based on a phrase. The things you knew as memories were a lie.
Implanted memories at birth and coded with the perception of free will.
This is important because as we know from the trailers and short films, the new models of Replicants follow every command.
We could be heading towards something very similar to Bioshocks ending. Except it my be Joi or K that will pay the price. We know Ryan plays a Replicant as he can crush through a wall with ease.
The ending will be ambigious as a possible to set up a trilogy or will end with the alagory that humans are an infection and will continue to feed off the the colonies unless we accept a transcendence beyond what it means to be human.
Dethroning Wallace will mean humanity will crumble as they've become dependant on his inovations that cured world hunger after the Blackout. Letting Deckard go will send the world into a fate that will befall the rest of the colonies as time continues. The movie (almost 3hrs), is very long so we'll see fleshed out characters and understand there perspectives. The eyes of Replicants, being a key to memory, will play a significant part in the investigations.
I'm hoping i'm wrong and we'll be able to see an ending that isn't bleak but gives us hope that humanity is capable of saving itself without becoming a cancer on each planet. The theme of Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep to me, has always been one of coexistence and empathy. We know that humans and Replicants can live together. We know they feel and want to exist as much as we do. The lines are continuously blurred when you can't see the difference between a Replicant and a Human when we don't even know what we are or why we do the things we do. Being human can't be explained easily. If it's a lack of a soul, that's based on belief in a soul. We don't have proof there's a soul and we don't have proof that we're not programmed. We all know that as we grow, our parents dictate what we know at an early age. Most kids are taught to believe in a religion. This single thing can shape how you act in the world and can be considered programming. It doesn't have to be a bad thing. Religion is good and shares a good way to live. But you can't deny we are shaped by what we've been told and where you grow up in the world. For instance, a child in the west could study Christianity and someone in the East, Buddhism. Different ways of life and ways to live by.
Blade Runner is a story of life. Not androids, not companies and world hunger, but a glimpse into what we may be like when the time comes and we transcend alongside what we call inhuman. Our coexistence is inevitable.
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