Blade Runner 2049 - The Importance of Not Being Special

    This essay contains spoilers for Blade Runner 2049.

    Blade Runner 2049 is a movie I very much enjoyed (you can read my review here) but it's an interesting film for me because I realized it nicely inverts a lot of what was inherent to the original movie. I disliked The Last Jedi for having what I felt was a message that didn't fit with the Star Wars universe that is somewhat reflected in this film but worked better in the last one. Specifically, it's the so...