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I have been waiting for Blade Runner 2049 for a long time. I once considered going to Hong Kong to watch the world premiere of 65438+1October 5.

Various coincidences failed to take place in early June 10. In addition, the mainland suddenly upgraded to 65438+1October 27th, so I chose to watch the mainland 2D version.

Since 65438/kloc-0 was released in Hong Kong and North America on October 5th, there have been constant comments on the Internet that this sequel has expanded and extended the original theme, and even some netizens said that this sequel is better than the original.

However, after watching the 2D version in Guangzhou on the first day of the release, I was disappointed-there was nothing new from the core of the film to the so-called theme extension, and Hans Zimmer's soundtrack was also very dramatic.

In addition, roger deakins's so-called superb photography, on the one hand, is really good, zoom and light and shadow have been used by him; On the other hand, too much emphasis on photography has destroyed the inherent tension of science fiction films to some extent.

I want to start with the core, story line and text of Blade Runner 2049.

First, the shortcomings of Blade Runner 2049

The first is that the kernel is out of date.

The main core of Blade Runner 2049 is not "the replicators awakened by feelings and self-awareness are more like human beings than human beings", but "the non-binary opposition between virtual and reality".

Unfortunately, the two cores of humanity and reality have been discussed by other sci-fi movies, and the writing temperament is more aura than this film.

For example, the previous works "blade runner" and "The Matrix" trilogy all expressed in movie language that the sage was daydreaming, who was bewitched by the butterfly-like thinking, but this movie just gave the answer straightforwardly-virtual is more elegant than reality (Joi said that human beings are composed of four elements of ATGC, while AR is only composed of two elements of 0 1, K said "more than half, but twice as elegant".

The main line of Blade Runner 2049 is that clone detective K is ordered to find the child born to clone Rachel. In addition, the feelings of K and VR girlfriends and K and Deckard are the other two sub-lines. All the story lines are well done, but there are many unreasonable details.

Unreasonable 1. When K went to the orphanage, the director of "black heart" squeezed the orphans for a period of time. The obvious message that can be conveyed by this passage is that people living at the bottom are biting each other; Using scenes of nearly a thousand people to break up the narrative, the hidden message that can be conveyed is probably that the director is saying, "Look, I am so powerful and arranged so well."

Unreasonable 2. Wallace is an ambitious businessman. He wants to colonize the universe, but because of his lack of productivity, he needs replicators to reproduce themselves to achieve scale, and then colonize more planets. He expressed this idea by brutally killing a clone of a womb without life. Although the film language has done some wonders with the explanation, it still doesn't clarify the logical inconsistency-don't you need a lot of clones? Why kill a clone that has just been made? Love will follow his instructions. Why in this way?

Unreasonable 3. Why does Wallace have to take Decca to the colonial planet to interrogate the whereabouts of cloned children? Digging a hole but not filling it in is really copying the shortcomings of Father ridley scott in Prometheus.

Unreasonable. According to the picture, when Love first went to LAPD to get Rachel's bone, no one found it, but it was found and Koko was killed. As a result, Koko's death revealed that he was also a clone. I killed Josh the second time I went to LAPD. Josh knows that Love took Rachel's bone and killed Coco's clone. Why not deal with it earlier, let Rachel come over and kill her directly? Why doesn't LAPD have anyone to help Koko and Josh?

Unreasonable 5. At the beginning of the film 15 minutes, K was degraded and insulted by others as a Replicator, which was even more straightforward than the way David was looked down upon in Prometheus, so the beginning of the film ended in a hurry.

Unreasonable 6. AR Joi's settings in the film can't be operated by himself. How did she find the girl standing in the street to go home?

Although there are many unreasonable places, the biggest problem of the film is actually the text.

First of all, back to the previous article, when AR male Joi saw the genetic elements of human beings, he lamented that his composition was only half that of human beings, and K said:

"Half the cost, but twice the elegance"

This is actually echoing the words of Tilea, the father of the Replicator. He said Roy, the Replicator.

"Light that is twice as bright burns in half the time."

At that time, Roy had just defeated Tyrell at chess, and before K said this about Joi, Joi was just a changeable sweetheart of K, thinking that he only loved him wholeheartedly.

Are the values behind this extremely terrible? -Because of absolute obedience to K and self-love, Joi is much more elegant than human beings, so virtuality is much more elegant than reality.

After understanding this question, how much will you sigh for the completely unbalanced "love" between Joi and K?

By the way, Spike Jonze's "She" is much better than this movie in discussing falling in love with artificial intelligence.

Another point of the writing problem lies in those who need to resist and revolutionary plagiarism. Rachel's baby was hidden because she was born in duplicate.

Since the purpose of the clone revolution and resistance to human beings is to control their own destiny, what logic is it to assume that Rachel's children will be their leaders in the future?

Fertility worship

Finally, for their own safety, the revolutionary army tried to kill Decca, who was taken away by Wallace.

Judging from the facial expression of the clone revolutionary army, the director is conveying the negative of this group-they are as numb and ignorant as human beings.

K allowed the revolutionary army to kill Deckard only because he found himself a clone and killed Morton who was protecting Rachel's children. This motive is too difficult to establish.

Then I saw Joi's advertisement attracting him on the road, and found that even clones can have true feelings, so I immediately turned to help K.

Although this passage has cause and effect, its logic is blunt and its explanation is vague, so it simply can't stand scrutiny.

Second, "Blade Runner 2049" pays tribute to the future.

This film directly quotes and echoes the previous works too much, which is suspected of deliberately satisfying the fans of the previous works; The spirit and core have not been changed, which makes this film unable to surpass its predecessor.

A truly excellent sequel is a work with the same basic IP attributes as Alien 2, but completely changed from genre to style.

Basically, this film has a previous audio, echo lines, scenes and characters in 20 minutes, which has to be said to be the result of lack of confidence in IP and lack of self-creation.

Third, "Look! How touching, cry! "

I named this comment "I saw some exquisite egoism", which not only refers to K's profound emotional essence to Joi, but also refers to the director's rude emphasis on "the moment of tears" through exquisite lens language.

For the first time, it took nearly 1 minute for K to get close to K's hand when K took the Trojan horse out of his bag, and at the same time it sounded Hans Zimmer's mood to set off the music.

The focus of the second pen appears when K is dying, feeling the pain of the body and the tenderness of snowflakes. It also took more than a minute to add Hans Zimmer's music, intermediate scenes, close-ups, close-ups and panoramic views.

These key points are like shouting in the street: look, how touching! Don't cry, don't go to the next game!

Fourth, the profound thoughts of the film can never be realized by a few "profound" words.

Movies have movie language, if only by the similarity of lines.

"love is for the safety of ta, treating ta as a stranger",

"The pain in your life is brought by the sweetness of memories." ...

This kind of chicken soup is actually not so good. It is better to read online romance novels.

At least no one in the original has such vague lines.

5. advantages.

The quality of the last shot of the film directed by Villeneuve is basically good.

This movie is also a scene where Deckerd and his daughter face each other through the window-the real snowflake corresponds to the virtual snowflake, and the actor Harrison Ford conveys all the emotional complexity with one eye.

Somehow, I thought of Cui Minzhi's eyes at the end of Park Chan-wook's old boys.