Blade Runner 2049
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
Sombre, measured, measured sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Our read · Blade Runner 2049 (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Blade Runner 2049
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