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Ben Nerevarine
Apr 14, 2006
The stand-in for the universal sex drive should be a little esoteric. Bowie would have been perfect.

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Ben Nerevarine
Apr 14, 2006

pmchem posted:

What's the thread consensus on what K is thinking right after he tosses the scrap of paper and looks at his gun in the "Hello, handsome" scene?


"I must rescue Deckard to show him his daughter because I'm a real boy and a good person"

is the obvious surface answer based on his later actions, but, not a very satisfying take.

That scene is his final realization of the artifice that is Joi (*joy*) and his resolve to face Luv (*love*) head on. He realizes he'd been grieving for an imaginary woman that served as the object of his fantasies, full stop. She was never real, she was merely the vessel of what he thought he wanted, and now he's free to face Luv--literally love: an unstoppable, relentless, elemental force outside of his control--so that he can transport Deckard--his ancestor in spirit if not in truth, the responsibility of the past to the future--to his daughter, who crafts the dreams of the next generation in a room that looks, uncoincidentally, like a womb.

Ben Nerevarine fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jun 23, 2018

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