“Blade Runner 2049” Humans or Replicants, which one is the real human? ? The hidden theme behind SF *Note! Contains spoilers.

“Blade Runner 2049” synopsis

In 2049, poverty and disease are rampant in California. Replicants, indistinguishable from humans, were manufactured as a labor force and maintained a precarious coexistence with human society. The investigators who crack down on the dangerous "Replicants" are called "Blade Runner" and protect the balance and order between the two societies. While investigating a certain incident, LA Police Department Blade Runner"K" (R. Gosling) learns of a "huge conspiracy" by Wallace Corporation, which is focusing on the development of "Replicants", and becomes the key to uncovering the darkness. arrive at. He is Deckard (H. Ford), a man who once worked as an excellent Blade Runner, but suddenly disappeared with a female replicant and has been missing for 30 years. What on earth did he know? The secret that Deckard has risked his life to protect is now about to be revealed, causing the order of the two worlds of humans and The Truth to collapse and affecting the survival of humanity.

Index

• Is “Retirement” “retirement”, “dismissal” or “disposal”?
• The “poetry” that Rutger Hauer gave to replicants
  
• A story of replicants who wish to be "good people" (contains spoilers for "Blade Runner 2049")

Is “Retirement” “retirement”, “dismissal” or “disposal”?

Both " Blade Runner " and "Blade Runner 2049" open in the same style. The first thing that comes to mind is the close-up of the blue eyes, which are never explicitly identified in the movie. But before that, text appears on the screen and briefly explains the world of the movie. Humanity has developed extremely high-performance artificial humans called "Replicants." The investigators who pursue the replicants who have caused a rebellion are called "Blade Runner." Also, the act of Blade Runner executing replicants is called "Retirement."

Blade Runner is based on Philip K. Dick 's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ' However, neither the word 'replicant' nor the title ' Blade Runner' appears. In the novel, the artificial humans are called "androids" or "Andy", and the main character Rick Deckard's occupation is "bounty hunter".

"Blade Runner 2049"

Although the story of the movie ``Blade Runner'' has been significantly modified from the original, the word ``Retirement'' was inherited from the original novel. In previous subtitled and dubbed versions, it has been translated as "disposal," "dismissal," and "disposal." The word "dismissal" is also used in the movie subtitles for "Blade Runner 2049" by Mina Matsuura. By the way, the Hayakawa Bunko version of ``Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' ”, it is “disposal processing”.

This is how the original “Blade Runner” was created!

There are various opinions as to whether either translation is accurate. When you hear the word "retirement," the words "retirement" and "retirement" tend to come to mind, but it can also mean "disposal" and "elimination." In any case, the fact that "execute" is distorted and replaced with "retirement" shows that humans treat the "replicants" they created as "objects." The translation ``dismissed'' means that ``replicants'' are given roles by humans, and if they are unable to fulfill those roles, they are unilaterally dismissed (disposed of).

The “poetry” that Rutger Hauer gave to replicants