Blade Runner 2049 is a very unconventional sci-fi movie, in large part because it carries on the surprising trope from the original movie that space exploration is left to wealthy individuals and amoral corporations. All of humanity that can afford it has gone to live on Mars, and we are left following the misadventures of the humans left behind on Earth and the corporations that have inevitably remained to exploit them.
That doesn’t mean “exploration” doesn’t occur, of course: in a keener way than Star Trek ever could, Blade Runner 2049 forces us to question our identity and our purpose in life, questions made harder by the existence of replicants that are better than humans in almost every way.
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