Fuck I love this movie. Every choice is deliberate, such as the lack of music or score in the confrontation with Deckard where other movies would use this as an opportunity to add another song to the soundtrack. The visuals are breathtaking and the story is so powerful. Probably my favorite movie. Officer K's quest for humanity and the desire to discover if he is Deckard's child is heartbreaking. I just had to mention a detail I found super interesting. Throughout the movie are many literary references, such as K reading Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov and Deckard quoting Stevenson with treasure island and K understanding the reference. This is because K's desire for knowledge stems from the larger want to become more human. Many of these books would be considered classics to humans and are a part of the literary Canon. And further they come from what western culture deems to be culturally and artistically significant. By exploring this art, K wants to connect to culture and to people. Not that these works are objectively superior works than what everyone enjoys reading, but to explore their significance, K hopes to explore the human condition and what informs human thought. And he does this through literature. Like the resistance fighter says, "dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do". And if even a computer android man cannot understand how humans work, then at least most fellow zoomers can relate.
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