For a long time I wasn't quite sure about the ending fight scene of Blade Runner 2049. K and Luv fight each other on the shores outside the city battling for who leaves with Deckard. What strikes me with this fight is how it ends. There is a bit of a choreographed fight between K and Luv but nothing that fancy. And it just ends with this brutal strangling and drowning of Luv. For a long time it felt kind of anticlimactic to me. Like the scene should have been this bigger more emotionally engaging scene like how the ending of the first Blade Runner was.But I feel like I now have an understanding of the scene. Luv's death is meant to show how human the replicants really are. Luv is seemingly one of the most advanced of the Replicants, but she still dies by drowning, she isn't some super-robot that can breathe underwater, she is essentially an organic being dependent on oxygen the same as every other person. It just kind of reinforces how eerie the concept of Replicants are. They aren't mechanical, they don't run on energy cells or something like that, they eat food, they breathe air, the are just humans that have been programmed genetically. Even though the Replicants have some abilities above a regular human, they are very much organic beings made of the same stuff as a regular person. I guess having Luv die like this just helped that idea sink in. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2YVUhOV
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