Blade Runner 2049 ranks as my second most favourite movie (behind The Revenant, though that's mostly for the nature scenes and Tom Hardy). This probably isn't nowhere close to an original opinion or feeling, but the experiences of Officer K(D6-3.7) really reached out and touched something within me the first time I watched the whole thing through. His process of rediscovering the long repressed emotions and humanity he had always had but had lost for so long he thought he'd never had it in the first place, his experiences with his colleagues and the surrounding people he meets, his own boss and the place he works for and the job he does was really something that, like I mentioned in previous posts, gives me real, strange comfort, knowing that someone is going through similar, if not the same, things you are.

There was one particular scene that this commission was based on, a scene just after he'd been bluntly told that he was a soulless, unliving being and being told to do something reprehensible, that he had never done before and had never imagined - or hoped - that he would ever have to do and knowing that there was no way to refuse without losing everything he had, including his life, and he is just sitting in his car in the middle of a storm in the night just...sitting and thinking, wondering what he should do, if he should perhaps take the other way or do what he had been bred to do, do the only thing he had been created for and not knowing which path he should choose, just sitting and...staring. That is the scene that sealed Blade Runner 2049 for me, as bizarre as it sounds and how simple it probably was to set up and film. Those few seconds gave me everything I needed to really hit it home for me. Because at the end of the day, who hasn't ever done something like that, just sat down and stared, thinking, contemplating, knowing that at the end of the day you never had a real chance to make a choice, the one you think you're making now, all the future ones you think you have to make and all the mistaken ones that you thought were real and that you had made before that had brought you here, now?

I shouldn't think too much. It's a good movie, no matter the unfortunate...associations people make with K and certain segments of society. Go watch it.

Art by the ever fantastic  Teragabba~, who I can always rely on to do a fantastic job with everything I can think of and more besides. She did a superb job with this, please send some commissions her way! You won't regret it! :D

Art (C)  Teragabba~
Character (C)  AWandererfromtheEast
Blade Runner 2049 and K (C) Whatever the hell company(s) made this damned good movie