I saw this on Friday, so I'm not completely remembering the film, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. I spent the drive home and the following hour or so talking about the film with a friend I went to see it with and it's been quite some time since I've done that. One of the first things we talked about after leaving the theater is that it didn't really feel like a noir, more like an adventure kind of film, but that's totally fine. I feel like K had more of a character arc than Deckard because of it and that made for a more interesting protagonist. I don't generally associate noirs with protagonists with arcs (e.g., Sweet Smell of Success, Scarlet Street, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, etc.,), but I think there's still enough there that's reminiscent of a noir that it could still be considered one. I don't know that it was their intention to create a noir, but rather, I think they wanted to explore some of the themes in that world without being tied to a genre. I'm okay with this.
It felt like they laid into some religious themes something fierce, but maybe my friend and I were looking into some parts a little too much; Wallace's God complex/false prophet bit was interesting, he called all his creations "angels", someone brought it up earlier, but the idea of Rachael as the virgin Mary if Deckard was not the father is an interesting angle, K as a sort of Jesus/savior figure when he still thinks he was born, but becoming a sort of John the Baptist figure, hell, even the way he killed Luv made me think of an infant kicking and screaming while being baptized (Forgive me if I have any errors in any of this, my knowledge of religion is fairly limited).
I found the character of Luv to be pretty interesting as well. The fact that she teared up when people were caused pain around her kind of felt like that was some sort of automated response to the situation, but that she really didn't express emotion in those situations. Maybe this leads back into that whole baptism thing because from what I remember, she doesn't really start to show emotion until the fight with K near the end and the way K kills her is like her being baptized because she's finally experiencing human emotion...I don't know. Random thoughts.
There was a lot more I found interesting with the film, but I'd probably just be rambling at this point.
tl;dr: I liked it.
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