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
  • Bayonetta [she/her]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    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.