If you’ve never seen Bladerunner 2049, you can start with these shorts.
No spoilers for 2049 in the comments section unless fully tagged as spoilers.
Order:
- 2022 - Blackout
- 2036 - Next Dawn
- 2048 - Nowhere To Run
If you’ve never seen Bladerunner 2049, you can start with these shorts.
No spoilers for 2049 in the comments section unless fully tagged as spoilers.
Order:
The replicants in both the original Bladerunner and 2049 can be seen as a parallel for the working class.
Replicants are not needed in a world where human labour is expendable. The Bladerunners are just the Police State functioning as designed. In 2049, the protagonist literally works for LAPD.
The State will behave in this way regardless of who is at the helm and controlling the machinery of brutality. Tyrell or Wallace, the incentives for exploitation remain.
2049 strikes a very different tone after the George Floyd Uprisings over the last year. The themes of alienation and sentience emphasize just how inhuman police are. The act of becoming a class traitor abdicates your very worth as a human.
looking at blade runner through postcolonialism is an interesting thing
Great suggestion. Will need to watch this. What do you like the most about this video?
well it's a short video that hits the major ideas regarding postcolonialism and the subaltern. and it has dry humor.