So good. Bleak as fuck, but good, and good in a lot of the same ways.
As an example, watch the whole movie, then rewatch and pay attention to that sex scene-it’s so literarily good.
Edit: abput the sec scene? Really? Where the protagonist
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After being retired from the police (and having his termination delayed) he hires a sex worker to fuck while his hologram girlfriend projects herself over.
Except the sex worker is working for the replicant underground/resistance. She wants to use him and roes not give a single shit about him as a person. The plastic mass produced girlfriend-product that he literally bought is projected glitchily over her, and the dialogue is all foreshadiwing as hell.
It’s him symbolically heartbreakingly-bleakly fucking his way from the synthetic world-which doesnt care about him but will lie to him for a price and allow him to play house-to the real world, which doesnt give a single fucking shit about him, and may try to kill him, but would be real, if he stopped projecting his delusions onto it. And it hapoens just as he’s defying his corporate masters and taking his investigation in directions he’s not supposed to, becoming his own, and doing so based on a delusionally hopeful interpretation of some evidence-the fake projected onto the real, pulling him into reality. It’s up there with ‘tears in rain’.
So good. Bleak as fuck, but good, and good in a lot of the same ways.
As an example, watch the whole movie, then rewatch and pay attention to that sex scene-it’s so literarily good.
Edit: abput the sec scene? Really? Where the protagonist
Tap for spoiler
After being retired from the police (and having his termination delayed) he hires a sex worker to fuck while his hologram girlfriend projects herself over.
Except the sex worker is working for the replicant underground/resistance. She wants to use him and roes not give a single shit about him as a person. The plastic mass produced girlfriend-product that he literally bought is projected glitchily over her, and the dialogue is all foreshadiwing as hell.
It’s him symbolically heartbreakingly-bleakly fucking his way from the synthetic world-which doesnt care about him but will lie to him for a price and allow him to play house-to the real world, which doesnt give a single fucking shit about him, and may try to kill him, but would be real, if he stopped projecting his delusions onto it. And it hapoens just as he’s defying his corporate masters and taking his investigation in directions he’s not supposed to, becoming his own, and doing so based on a delusionally hopeful interpretation of some evidence-the fake projected onto the real, pulling him into reality. It’s up there with ‘tears in rain’.