That leaves Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 with a pretty steep hill to climb. Tired of killing others, he decides to go on the run with his android lover Rachael (Sean Young). Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), an android hunter known as a “blade runner,” learns that all life has some sort of value. It’s a neo-noir thriller with an open ending, but from a character and thematic perspective, Scott neatly sewed up the story. No question is more important than “why?” Yes, we’re in a cultural moment where nearly everything is a sequel, prequel, reboot, or spinoff, but Scott’s dystopian film never organically called for a follow-up the way some films do. It’s been 35 years since Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner hit theaters, and when it takes this long for a sequel to roll around, a few questions need to be answered.
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