Film Analysis - 'Blade Runner 2049' (Directed by Denis Villeneuve)

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The film 'Blade Runner 2049' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4), directed by Denis Villeneuve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Villeneuve), expertly conveys the weight of this Earth's futuristic dystopian society much like its original predecessor, 'Blade Runner' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogpIG53Cis) (a beautiful classic). The film itself focuses mainly upon a single synthetic humanoid simply referenced to as K (played by Ryan Gosling -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Gosling), as a synthetic he is one in millions; known only as 'replicants', these mass produced human clones are used for slave labour across the ever increasing number of human controlled colony worlds. The main plot of the film follows K as he is tasked with finding a child born of a replicant who died during child birth as an emergency c-section was performed, during this investigation however, K begins to develop self doubt and eventually begins to realise that he might just be the one he is hunting.
The film covers a variety of interesting concepts/topics, such as the difference(s) in the way we are viewed by ourselves and by others and how that can change for the better or alternatively, the worse.  However the film does introduce a concept that I did not expect, with the introduction of Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ford) in both this film and the original 'Blade Runner'); Deckard is revealed to be the father of this still anonymous child and (along with the skilled acting of Harrison Ford (who is personally one of my favourite actors of all time,)) introduces an element of parental love into the film, albeit in a rather crude and harsh way. It infers the idea that ones love for another can keep them distant from them purely for their own protection, this belief that a father would rather disappear entirely from his child's life rather then see harm come to it truly touched me as a viewer and was personally one of the most moving parts of the film for me.
Graphically the film is phenomenal, each and every setting and effect is believable and left me wanting to see more of this ravaged, industrial version of Earth; however what really impressed me was the audio, (much like the film 'Arrival', which was also directed by Denis Villeneuve) the sounds and music impressed upon me a deep sense of frightfulness and already existing, irreversible damage, each sound felt like a crude form of music trying to break free from the urban cityscapes and the drained soil and emphasised a sort of infertility within the Earth, as though it could no longer harbour our species on its own.
Personally i found this film amazing, especially seeing how I was already a massive fan of the original 'Blade Runner' and Harrison Ford (I cannot recommend it enough and seeing that it is failing in the box office makes me just want to advertise it more)

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