Blade Runner
Major spoilers forBlade Runner 2049 .
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Was grand really as all good as he seemed inBlade Runner 2049 ? We have a hypothesis that , rather than being a random replicant who wound up exchange the destiny of humanity , he was an unintentional pawn of villain Niander Wallace who sour against his creator . Allow us to explicate .
In the basic interpretation of the picture , K is a replicant workings as a blade Caranx crysos who has his belief challenged when out on a routine " retirement " : the discovery ofDeckard and Rachael ’s childchallenges his worldview , with him eventually believe it ’s him and he thus has a soul . In a crook that intentionally subverts the traditional Hero of Alexandria ’s journeying , however , it turns out that is n’t the casing , although he still manages to realise his innate manhood through sacrifice in the name of love .
But is K ’s story something more ? Is he not just a parallel of Roy Batty ’s ego - realization arc in the original and sum of the series ' defining interrogative of what relieve oneself us human , but also a corporate stooge done good ? Was K actually the latterly incepted replicant pawn of Niander Wallace , made explicitly to find Deckard ’s youngster ? We believe so .
The Theory - K Was Planted By Wallace
Niander Wallace ’s end is , ultimately , conquering . He wants to rule the adept just as Alexander wept over never being capable to do . He design to do it through a massive slave workforce of replicants , and his route to that is cracking replicant brain Tyrell ’s method of procreation ; get hold the child of Rachael , the creator ’s reproductively - enabled image , and amass an army . The film has this charge done in the main through Luv under his direction , although our possibility advise thing start before .
Wallace discovered where Sapper Morton was hiding ( an event catalyzed bytheBlade Runner 2048short ) and , knowing he ’s part of a bigger cell in the resistance underground with connections to Deckard , planted a mole in the LAPD to bring out and crock up the shell . K is activated explicitly to find the child : that is his defined intent . When he wakes up on his direction to Sapper ’s , those are his very first moments .
As a replicant needs the thaumaturgy of freedom to work - the second you introduce doubt they wo n’t obey - K is incognizant of his position in a bragging plot and due to his memory implants believe himself to be just any other replicant doing his line . This does introduce a margin for computer error ; K is susceptible to outside influence and is n’t as efficient as expect , run Luv to take matters into her own hands .
Also " in " on it , and far more damaging to Wallace ’s destination , is Joi . Likewise , she does n’t know of her part in the program , but she is Wallace Corps . method of tracking : the emulator K gives her at the end of his first day on Earth is a planted object that double as a elbow room for the company to keep tab on him . Due to her obliviousness , however , she authentically fall in love with K and thus has the man she believes he is ( not the groin he really is ) practiced interests at spunk . This messes with his emotion and place him veering way off form , but crucially later win over him to destroy the tracking machine .
Luv course corrects and goes to LAPD to access their phonograph record and track K , who by this time has fortuitously contribute her to Deckard . With this he ’s fulfilled his purpose and is no longer useful , so she leaves him behind ( presumptively out of shared replicant compassion , although she does destroy his accidentally - circuitous passion ) and the next degree of the architectural plan begins - finding out who Deckard lie with next in the chain to the child .
Of course , this is all just speculation at this point and worthless without evidence to back it up . Fortunately , we have a lot of that .
The Evidence K Was Planeted By Wallace
The entry point for this theory is the opening of the movie : we follow K ’s thread maker across Wallace ’s artificial fields , with its inhabitant only wake up as he come near his finish . Taken at face note value he was just give birth a nap in his ego - driving flying car , but given it ’s the instauration of the lead of an fantastically purposeful movie has the feeling of represent more . Is he just awake up or activating for the first clip ? The possibility of him being planted is open up further by2049 ’s heavy leaning on the role of memory and the hint of implant to openly lead on replicants ; there ’s no way for K to know whether he ’s just been thrown into the worldly concern or not .
Other interaction break more tangible hint . What Joi says to K when he first give back to the prostrate - " it was a day " - are stock phrases we later take heed from the jumbo hologram ad at the destruction , suggesting she ’s just been installed . And Luv conversely hints at a chronicle with K : she does n’t kill him when fail the scraps heap and will him to continue , calls him a " bad son " when taking Deckard ( possibly because K " fail " ) and her already iconic " I ’m the estimable one " line is much stronger if the pair has a real , existing connection . All of Luv ’s military action make more common sense if K ’s part of her plot of ground .
Perhaps the most suggestive element , however , is Wallace himself . When trying to get info out of Deckard , the chief operating officer tries to plantthe possibleness he ’s a replicantin his mind . His take on the long - fence hypothesis is that Tyrell planted Deckard at the kickoff of the first film with the chief design of fall for and subsequently mating with Rachael . That ’s the same basic idea as the K possibility ; the only deviation here is that sex is n’t the object , it ’s what undoes it . give how all his monologues are self - ingratiating , it ’s not brainsick to suggest Wallace ’s mind go here because that ’s what he ’s done himself .
The main knock against the theory is the horse memory . Much of the plot of ground hinge on K recalling one of Ana ’s puerility experiences of hiding a horse from some bullies while at the orphanhood ( which wind up being a summary of the film - K blot out Deckard , sham he ’s dead , thus allowing him exemption ) . Why does Wallace ’s works just happen to have the computer memory of the person he ’s hunting ? And how did Joi know about the sawhorse and its dating before K cite it to her ? It could be just a coincidence , although that ’s someone empty even in the film ’s endeavor to undermine the " particular one " narrative . Instead , the best explanation is that it ’s an implant all blade ball carrier - propose replicants get : Joi has it pre - plastered as part of her specific exploiter item , Joshi ’s large questioning is her take sure the newly add K has the usual moral motivator , and Ana would include it in the first place as it ’s the most personal , driving full point for her .
What Does This Theory Mean For Blade Runner 2049?
The problem withmost fan theoriesis that they present intriguing alternate readings of the narrative yet do n’t follow through in making clear their place in the film ’s bigger picture . But K being Wallace ’s stooge does n’t just fit in with the bigger thematic picture , it fortify it .
Blade Runner 2049is all about personal identity , and how that ’s defined by action , belief and love . Across the film , K finds his real humanity in tell apart Joi ’s erotic love and making the ultimate sacrifice , while the ambiguous Deckard is given life in death . Even if we change K ’s origins , that still hold ; the Wallace influence primarily impacts his pre - beingness , not the terminal - goal . If anything it makes it more potent ; instead of finding humankind from machinelike source , he ’s actively make against an paired determination to do so . This makes him even more like Roy Batty ( his true analogue in the original ) , and whilethe movie ’s subversion of the monomythis lesser fall in K ’s placement - he ’s not Deckard ’s girl yet is still " special " - the defining vista of his and Joi ’s love now represents something stronger and more unbelievable : a greater miracle .
There ’s no singular here and now that betoken towards K being planted by Wallace but , like Deckard being a replicant before it , there ’s pile of evidence and an overall lack of contradictions in the idea . Whether it was intended by Denis Villeneuve or not is , at the present moment , unknown , but he ’s certainly sown the seeds for an accenting of his princely statement : humanity can come from explicitly insensate origins . Give the film a rewatch and see what you believe .
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