Blade Runner 2049, as it relates to Abortion

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  1. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Has anyone seen the movie Blade Runner 2049 ?

    I don't know if it was intentional, but it really struck me how much of the themes in the movie related to Abortion.

    In the story, there are an entire class of human beings ("replicants") whose humanity is completely denied, they are viewed as disposable, no more human than machines.

    An interesting point in the movie is that they mentioned these replicants do not have a soul because they were never born.

    The entire theme of the story dwells on the complete devaluing of human life. There are some really dark scenes in there (as with the original Blade Runner movie).


    For those interested in these types of science fiction movies, I would encourage you to watch (or re-watch) it, and bear in mind the entire time while watching it how it relates to the devaluation and commodification of human life, as well as the parallel to abortion.
     
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    Wealth inequality does the same..
     
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    Ya, when women have the right to their own bodies taken away it IS dehumanizing them...


    But do you ever get your opinions from science and facts or just science fiction ?
     
  4. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It looks like I'm not the first to notice this connection.

    How 'Blade Runner 2049' is strangely pro-life

    Few would call Hollywood a bastion of traditional Christian values, and it's certainly not going to defend any of the faith's more controversial values.

    But when I watched Blade Runner 2049, it struck me: This movie feels pro-life.

    Not intentionally, perhaps. I have no insight into the political or cultural leanings of the movie’s bevy of writers or director Denis Villeneuve. And certainly, the R-rated film’s content is far from family friendly, what with all its blood and gore and nudity. But nevertheless, Blade Runner 2049 unequivocally insists that there's something special—something miraculous—about birth and conception, and that makes it one of the most powerful pro-life statements I've seen on screen.

    Of course, to unpack why I feel this way, we’re going to have to dive into the movie’s plot, and you know what that means: Spoilers ahead.

    Blade Runner 2049, like its classic 1982 predecessor Blade Runner, is built around a deceptively simple question: What makes us human? It takes us into a dystopian world
    in which humans walk and work alongside “replicants”, essentially lifelike robots.

    But calling them simply robots does them a disservice. They, by most measures, “live.” They eat. They breathe. They even have childhood memories—false ones, admittedly, implanted to help them interact more seamlessly with humankind. But they sure feel real. And when a “blade runner” such as Ryan Gosling’s K stops by to “retire” them, they can make it quite clear—violently clear—that they don’t want to be retired.

    But the society in Blade Runner 2049 says that while replicants may seem to live, they don’t. They’re things, nothing more: Niander Wallace, the movie’s antichrist-like replicant industrialist, feels no guilt when he kills a new “product” by slicing her across the belly and letting her bleed out on the floor—just moments after the replicant left her own synthetic womb.

    These things aren’t alive, Blade Runner’s dystopian culture tells us. Not really.

    But is that true?

    The movie forces us into asking that question with every scene.

    And when it offers a possible answer, it’s a profound one.

    Blade Runner 2049 s plot is predicated on a “miracle,” as someone says—the miracle of childbirth. K finds the bones of a replicant woman who, apparently, conceived and gave birth to an unknown baby more than 20 years before. It’s a game-changer: When K and his boss, Lt. Joshi, uncover this stunning truth, K realizes that it alters everything. “To be born is to have a soul,” he tells Joshi.

    But it’s not the act of birth that’s the real miracle here, is it? It’s the act of conception—the idea that a synthetic replicant joined with a human man, and the result was … life. That life gestated and grew inside a replicant womb—something no synthetic form has ever done.

    Lt. Joshi understands this “miracle's” ramifications. She knows that unveiling this revelation will change the reality of what replicants actually are. And should anyone else—be they human or replicant—find out, it’ll mean “a war, or a slaughter.” She demands that K “erase everything,” including the now-grown child. There must be no trace.

    continued...
     
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    I don't watch movies or TV, but letting the government grow powerful enough to control your body would make a good movie. If you only see one movie this summer, don't miss ...
     

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