Jeff Palmer

Haven’t been out to a play in quite awhile, this satisfied that need.

The film ages pretty well. With all the advanced technological communication devices it’s still too easy to lie, and get away with it. A fairy tale finale doesn’t alter the fact that the good ones suffer the most, and are gone too soon. Props to Vera Farmiga for a terrific performance.

Building on Dick’s dystopian vision of his home state’s future, BladeRunner 2049 tries to fuse an almost helpless humanity with machine-assisted survival in an over-extracted environment, with varying degrees of success. Not for the feint of heart, the film explores an Alien-like premise of artificial existence, from birth through childhood to manhood - the life of K, our protagonist - in fleeting memories and unreliable research. Poor boy wants to find out more about his mother, but can he live with what he discovers?