Ryan Gosling as Officer K in BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve
BLADE RUNNER 2049
2017 - dir. Denis Villeneuve
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[ID. a gif from blade runner 2049 of officer k looking up a one of the large joi holograms, who crouches to point at him. end ID.]
why are they always doing amatonormativity to ryan gosling characters.
like. phm grace is told he should agree to a suicide mission because he doesn't have any friends or family. barbie movie ken thinks he needs a girlfriend to be complete. lars from lars and the real girl is so lonely that his brain creates a girlfriend, not even necessarily for the sake of having a girlfriend but for the sake of having a venue to connect with other people through. k from blade runner 2049 has a hologram girlfriend that he clings onto to feel like a human or whatever, i don't remember that one as well. but idk it's weird to me. i guess this happens in a lot of movies it's just funny to see it happen over and over again to ryan gosling specifically.
Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) dir. Derek Cianfrance
erm I dunno what I was thinking last night
[ID. digital art of skully from marble hornets pressing a hand to the screen, a cracked glass effect sprawling out from their palm. skully has chromatic aberration at the lines and scribbly white writing above skully’s hand reads “you are broken. you can be fixed.” end ID.]
i still havent actually listened to TMA
[ID. digital art of the distortion from the magnus archives in the form of michael shelley walking through a doorway. one hand grabs the doorframe and two other hands reach out with elongated fingers. three face shapes overlap each other with a line of smiles and eyes follow them. there are four legs taking steps and the outfit consists of warm colored tops and cool colored bottoms. everything overlaps, interconnects and creates tangents. michael’s blonde hair flows and curls. end ID.]
i have so many fragmented thoughts about blade runner 2049. questions. musings. i can't stop thinking about that scene of k and joi in the rain. she says "i'm so happy when i'm with you" and he replies "you don't have to say that." he buys an ai girlfriend who can be Whatever You Want Her To Be! and he just gets the store model. doesn't bother to change her appearance. she's just a thing, but he's also just a thing. he doesn't like real girls. he doesn't want to be human. not until he thinks he really might be. "to be born is to have a soul" he says, meaning he doesn't think he has a soul, and he doesn't think joi has one either, and he's fine with that. he puts her in an emanator so she can go wherever she wants. that's what he says. not "you can always be with me" (she is artificial intelligence programmed to be into him!!!) but "you can go anywhere you want". he can't set her free but he can give her the illusion of freedom, which is the same thing he has. an object masquerading as a person. "i'm so happy when i'm with you" says the computer program. "you don't have to say that" says the soulless replicant because he knows she can't feel happy, he knows she's programmed to say that, he didn't change any of her settings, it wasn't about that. he didn't buy a lover. didn't even buy a friend. just bought a program pretending to be a person. and then gave her the chance to experience the world like a person does. she isn't one. neither is he. but that's the point.
