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Feb 08, 2018
A rich chamber piece compared to the original symphony: from dreaming of electric sheep to having a human baby from a robot/android/replicant. Things look pared-down at first: the low-res CG smog/fog L.A.; the limited colour palette of black/gray/sulfur yellow (Enemy and Arrival); the zen-like interiors with rippling water reflections evoking Robert Lepage, etc. The cast was good yet less intense (remember the scene with Rutger Hauer and the pigeons?). In addition to Ridley Scott, there are echoes of Tarkovsky's Solaris (the virtual wife that kept popping up) and Stalker (the claustrophobic 'zone') and most of all, Chris Marker who made the classic La Jetée, about MEMORY (and time travel), later remade as Nine Monkeys with Bruce Willis et.al. Back to 2049, a bit long at more than 2.5 hours, in which the last 30 minutes were like Star Wars: is he my Daddy?