On October the 30th 2017, I watched a movie called “Blade Runner 2049” directed by Denis Villeneuve. It is a continuation of a very famous SF movie “Blade Runner”, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel and directed by Ridley Scott. Compared with other modern science fiction stories spread around the world in the forms of live-action, animation and comics, this movie is a bit old-fashioned (because it itself became a part of history), lacking more stylish (or even jumbled) expression of near future in nowadays. However, it turned out to be intentionally done, due to the scenes of the hideout of Rick Deckard. Old Gaff is also a symbol for such a style. The theme involves much about Christianity and at first it seemed to be on the line of assimilating one’s identity. I prefer stories to grasp one’s own mission regardless of a crisis of identity. However, again the story line moved to a direction not like the former one, investing the story more attractive to the audience. What replicants and Joi mean, or a story maker and real story in the story come to get in touch with people in reality. Finally, this movie is just a bridge from the world of “Blade Runner” to something, not as a final conclusion of something.
A few things I thought were a shortage of an expression for avant-garde, for example the usage of honeybees. It would have been more profound if modern techniques for avant-garde were utilized to enhance the story line that honeybee implied. The white dead-tree was good, but it could be more excellent.
