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More Human Than Humans - by Jade - Commonplace

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Blade Runner 2049, Consciousness, and Identity

Blade Runner 2049, directed by Denis Villeneuve I’ll admit the first time I watched Blade Runner 2049, I found it a snoozer. It is a long, sparse film, with characters meant to hold the viewer at an emotional distance. There are often stretches of near-silence, occasionally punctuated by waves of synth. But I was enthralled by the scale of Villeneuve’s visuals and Hans Zimmer’s haunting score, so I returned for a 2nd, then 3rd rewatch. By the 4th or 5th rewatches, the film’s central question had become one I return to often: what does it mean to be human, and to find meaning in an…

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