Blade Runner 2049, an Allegorical Account

I wanted to write an allegorical account of the new Blade Runner 2049 movie. I think this movie is really important for future generations as it really feels like it's a reflection of what is coming to our world, or what is starting to come into reality now. I'm going to be using green language so some words will look mis-spelled and hyphenated to draw attention to the darker meaning of the context in which the scenes are in. Please note that this whole allegorical account contains spoilers, so if you haven't seen the movie yet, go see it before reading. You may copy this review in its entirety and post it wherever you like. You may not use this text to take the meanings out of the context in which they are written. All rights are reserved. This work falls under fair use as it is a review (derivative work) of a copyrighted work.

The movie is set 30 years into the future, our future.

In Blade Runner 2049 the world is dominated by artificial creations. The main character is called K for short as he has a number starting with K for a name. The movie opens with a fly over California which is now a futuristic metropolis , K is asleep at a wheel of a flying car, suggesting that actually it is us as a society that is asleep at the wheel as we destroy our world with an uncaring attitude towards life. As we descend we cannot even see the surface of the earth as it is entirely covered with man made structures that are all connected.

The car is on auto-pilot controlled by artificial intelligence taking K to a location outside of the city. Is this intelligence guiding us to dangerous places we shouldn't go? Who is controlling this artificial intelligence? I would say evil men and women that want to make the world in their image judging by the world below that is half-destroyed and half-living.

Eventually we break away from the city of what looks like L.A. to a endless dry and cracked red earth on the outskirts. Back in the cockpit of the car we see computer screens up. K is some kind of police officer judging by the photo of himself, his number and his status which appear to be active on one screen.

K is on his way to retire another artificial life-form that has escaped the system. The word "Retire" is a watered down version of the word "Murder" to make it more appealing to the masses. It is hiding out, living his life , bothering no one. K was designed to retire other artificial life-forms that have escaped the system of control but he comes to realize that his actions are wrong and that his whole life is not really his own. He operates on implanted memories, he's given instructions to do things that he abhors, and only thing real he has in his life is an hollow-grafic girlfriend that he purchased from a company that created him in the first place, it begs the question if that system watches his every move.

The holographic girlfriend that he spends time with when he is not retiring life forms is his only solace when he returns home from work. K lives in a small apartment on the top floor. His neighbors all hate what K represents by the looks they give him and the writing on the door to his apartment.

K arrives at a barren location, there is a house, a few industrial large structures with white canopy's and a large dead white tree that K lands near. There is a large human like figure inside one of the structures with the large canopy's. It looks up and see's K flying over head. The human like figure is wearing what looks like a protective suit that is large enough to look like a deep space suit. The helmet covers the human like figure's entire head. It takes off the helmet judiciously revealing a large man clean shaven with dark short hair.

K gets out of the car and a drone detaches from the roof. K draws a circle in the air with his finger and the drone takes off to look around and record footage.

Inside the house a pot is on the stove, something is cooking on low heat, we can hear the steam escaping rattling the cover. (Somewhere a cage is rattled as we get close to the stove.) The man with the protective suit from outside is now in pair of trousers connected to a pair of suspenders and a long sleeve shirt. There is some kind of device strapped to his waist belt.

The man arrives at the stove and looks at the slow cooking pot.

K is in the room already sitting at the table off to the side of the kitchen.

"I hope you dont mind, I took the liberty of letting myself in. I was careful not to bring in dirt."

The man replies, "The dirt I dont mind, how ever I do mind unannounced visits". The man puts on a set of spectacles that look to small for his head and turns toward K.

K murder's this artificial life-form from instructions of people above him who never really had the right in the first place to initiate violence. And to pass that wrong onto another just compounds the issue.

K murder's without really knowing why. K is told and K obeys. During the struggle the artificial life-form explains that because K never experienced a miracle he doesn't understand what he's doing. The meaning of that will become clear later.

Later on we realize that the AL was involved in protecting another artificial life-form that miraculously had a baby. In this world, artificial life-forms are not capable of child birth. K himself realize's this during an analysis of bones that were discovered under the dead white tree.

It comes down to K discovering this himself and his superiors want the information and the baby terminated. The superiors do not want the truth to come out in the open. It would destroy the division that's already created between artificial life-forms and humans who already hate each other in the first place. Both species are controlled by this hate, in this act of hate, they give up their individual value to the state.

The state can try to define what we are but we can always choose to step out of that role and define for our selves what is good and what is right in our minds and in our hearts.

What I find interesting is the organization that creates these artificial life-forms and the actual organizer who uses the name Wallace. Which I thought was weird. I think of William Wallace from the movie Braveheart which was based on a historical person that brought freedom to Scotland by not allowing himself to be subject-gated by tyranny.

What does that mean? Does that mean that if we are not carful free men can be subject-gated by there own desire to do good? Or do our handlers want us to believe that freedom will all ways be subject-gate given enough time?

Wallace mentions that every civilization was built on the backs of slave labor. Wallace creates artifactual slaves to supply a hunger to control what we dont understand, or to avoid our own limitations.

The Wallace Industry's structures are built pyramid-like similar to Tyrel corporation in the first film.

And inside the pyramid we're all these compartments very simmilar to the pyramids at Giza, but modern. There was not very much light, only in focused areas where there was human-like activity. Islands surrounded by water and darkness of human-like activity. The only way to reach these islands were stone slabs that stretched out from the door way to the center of the structure. It felt like a tomb.

Anita Moorjani, a NDE experiencer once said that living on the planet earth is like walking around in the dark which a flash light on. You can only focus on specific things and its very difficult to see the whole picture until the lights come on when you pass on.

There were times in this film that were so excruciating hard to look at because it was just so barren and wasteful.

So it is this idea we need to get. We need to realize that the way we are being controlled by this system and in the way we are allowing ourselves to be controlled is really destroying us. Blade Runner 2049 is like a future representation of what it could look like if we continue down this path.

K starts to realize that he is being lied too, and all the memories that have been implanted in him to allow him to feel human while he does inhumane things have no meaning. K decides to do something that he actually can own, he defy's the captor system and protects the people who have been wronged by this system: The people that protected the artificially created child, especially the father of this child. K brings the father to the now living child. In the end he creates for himself something that is his, his actions.

The esthetics of the film had a very open feeling, there were a few moments where you would just be looking at the scenery with no sound. It was so quiet in the theater you could hear the breathing in the room. I thought that it was great that there were times in the movie where there wasn't any action really, you were just taking in the surroundings. What was even more interesting to me was that people were not walking out of the film. Usually with films that have nothing going on accept atmosphere, it can turn the masses off.

From my understanding, life is about contemplation and then action. I feel that Blade Running 2049 followed that premise. It gives me hope that things are really starting to change after so long. I thought I would never see the end.

I really thought that the production stayed true to what Blade Running really is and in turn I also feel like the film stayed true to what reality is as well in the here and now.

I tip my hat to the creators of this film, that they hand the audacity to make a film like this in this time in history, I guess humanity is finally ready for real change.