![]() ![]() We went back to the Planned Parenthood Book Sale on Half-Price Day. MORE ON THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD BOOK SALE. Somebody should get an Oscar, maybe Ryan Gosling, whom I first encountered in La La Land, or Harrison Ford, who is always brilliant. We were very glad to see Dekker/Harrison Ford, who is 100% human in his acting, a relief after so many replicants. The reference didn’t seem entirely apt, so we’ll see the movie a second time. ![]() My husband points out that this is a reference to Joseph K of Kafka’s The Trial. Later in the movie, K is sometimes called Joe. After she agrees, smiling, that it would be pleasant to be read to, he says mockingly, “You hate that book.” Coincidentally, a computer who examines K for post-traumatic stress recites line of verse from Pale Fire, and K must repeat them.Ĭells interlinked within cells interlinkedĪgainst the dark, a tall white fountain played.Īnthony Lane in The New Yorker identified these lines, which otherwise (and still?) sound like nonsense. K is a fan of Nabokov’s Pale Fire, a book which he claims his girlfriend, Joi, an Alexa-style robot who can shimmeringly half-materialize, hates. As in the first Blade Runner, some replicants are villains but others are very decent, especially K (Ryan Gosling), a “blade runner” whose job is to hunt down earlier models of replicants, who got out of control and went rogue. The cinematography is gorgeous, the bleak, dusty environment is tragically realistic (a dead tree proves emblematic of the lost natural world), and the characters are sharply-drawn, almost human, though most are replicants, bio-engineered beings who work as servants and slaves. ![]() It is absolutely stunning, and not just for SF fans. Dekker (Harrison Ford) and K (Ryan Gosling) in “Blade Runner” 2049 ![]()
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