Blade Runner 2049 | 'Cells Interlinked' and Pale Fire (LITERALLY ME! INCELS INTERLINKED)

I'm gonna talk about poetry a lot. You've been warned.

Written narrated and edited by Eric Nye.

#BladeRunner #BladeRunner2049 #PaleFire #DenisVilleneuve

[arielpastel]

from this point of view, the "literally me" feeling becomes cruelly ironic

[qpid]

What's interesting about K is how he is special. Not because of who he was born as, or made as, but the choices he makes. There is a point in the film where he realizes that he is not the chosen one. But, he makes the choice to stay involved in the story. To be a hero. Through his choices an everyman becomes a special man.

[hiduck]

It's interesting that Joi, that person who convinces K that he is the main character, the chosen one, the messiah, is then shown to be marketed as "everything you want to see; everything you want to hear"

It implies that the evidence he takes to show himself as the chosen one comes from his lens determined by what he *wanted from the start* - we are shown this nearly from the beginning and it's another link to pale fire

[zackblast]

when the fact that the white fountain was revealed to be a mountain and that what the man read was a typo feels somehow relates to K and the child, a simple mistake, same as when he was reading the dna lists and when finding two people with the same dna... only difference, one is male and the other is female, a M-ountain, and a F-ountain.

[DinerLingo]

From the opening few lines of Nabokov's books you're sucked in. His writing is beautiful. Nabokov certainly was a genius--made even more apparent when you realize he was writing--not his first language (Russian) or even his second (French)--in his third language (English).

[ProfessorTurnipAlpha]

Your pieces are just miles ahead of any other video essay on this platform. Bravo, as always!

[MMarcobose]

Finished this then expected a crazy view count, this deserves so much more love, hell of an analysis

[Atestinal]

While I'm not the movie's biggest fan, I love the overall concept/arc of this compliant dude who feels empty, and without realizing it, is trying to inject importance/meaning into his life by mistaking himself as a kind of chosen one, then after the veil is lifted, he decides to just make his own choice of what he thinks should be done, even if it kills him

[RobWatt]

this scene was added late in filming. pale fire was recommended by gosling because he had used it for acting excercises

[maxwellschmidt]

What I love about the pale fire reference is how accessible it is to convey meaning without context. The test is checking his emotional reactions to words dealing with individuality, love, and death. The questions are asked with an accusatory tone, like he's being interrogated about his ability to experience love and individuality. The brilliance of both movies, but especially 2049 is that there are constant layers, threads, and levels of meaning with multiple valid interpretations of each, which demand to be constantly repermutated in viewers' minds. Much of it is accessible even without going to.outside resources, but by bringing blade runner to those works and bringing the works back to blade runner creates a very rich dialogue.

[deacont]

I searched within cells interlinked and found this amazing video essay. Identity. Something I struggle with and I now believe is why I was gravitated towards this great movie. I’ll definitely be reading Pale Fire now, fantastic work.

[DThron]

Nailed it. The thing I would add is that the film itself makes a symbol out of it's own existence in relation to the source art of Blade Runner. Blade Runner/Deckard is the poem 'Pale Fire, ' and 2049/K is the Kinbote commentary on the poem. In talkinga about what Blade Runner means to us, we reveal our own desires for what it means - i.e. what art reveals within those that witness it IS the art itself. It's a commentary on our relationship to art - taking something 'real' and using it as an identity - something the film does, and something we do as fans. THIS is how you make a meta movie :)

[unrealnews]

This comes so close but never "brings it home".
The question of reality here is similar to that of the spinning top at the end of Inception in that it doesn't matter if the top stops spinning. It doesn't matter that the memories are not K's. What matters is that he takes them to be and acts as though they are. This reifies him greater than any external confirmation.
It doesn't matter if it was a tall white fountain or a tall white mountain. What matters is that you take the experience of reading the poetry to be significant and put forth the effort to make the words mean something.
It's in the act of belief and the will to act on that belief the magic of consciousness 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴.

Why does this matter?

Remember the moment when his greatest love appears to him again post death, but as a commercial apparition, and calls him "Joe". All of what is built into the relationship is laid barren and any hope of "real" humanity is gone. In that moment, suicide makes sense to him. It's in this same moment that he decides to save Decker. He remembers that death for a good cause would make him human. This is where it matters, and where what could be a string of nonsense words at the potential end of a man's life by heart attack are granted their power.

[turbobutts]

Blade runner 2049 is one of my favorite movies. Coincidentally, I bought a copy of pale fire a while ago, and have been meaning to read it - completely unaware of this connection to blade runner. I’m stopping your video 2 and a half minutes in, and forcing myself to finally read this book. Thanks for the inspiration!

[chrisdonley]

Take my like, how insignificant it is, but moreso, take my eternal gratitude for taking the time to create this video to explain what many of us ponder, but are too afraid to ask or search for in depth. This film is beautiful (and the first one, too). The artistry is absolutely rich in these films.

[machinegunblues]

Dude awesome video, thank you for making this. I watched it twice so far. I randomly get this scene stuck in my head every few months and have to rewatch it, which is how I found your video. I'm loving the analysis of how it relates to the story at large.

[zappababe]

Wow - thank you so much for doing such a deep dive into this and producing such a brilliant explanation. You have really opened my eyes to how well-written Blade Runner 2049 is and how much thought went into it. You have given me a whole new appreciation of the movie. Thank you for using your (obviously very impressive) intellect to uncover the reason why this poem was chosen to test K/Joe. I never would have understood the profound nature of this film without your explanation. I am very impressed at your insights and very grateful to you for sharing them with us.

[wds]

Omg you made a video about one of my favourite movies of all time! And you gave me so much insight into the movie that I didn't have before! Like I knew that the first bladerunner had a whole theme about eyes because they are "the window to the soul" and the movie basically asks if Replicants have souls.

But I never realized that BR2049 continued the theme and took it even further. Questioning what is real and what is replicated so to say. Just amazing. Thank you for this video, this is the exact type of passion project that youtube is missing and the type of video that makes me happy to be a subscriber!

[defenderofvirginity]

“Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one” — Confucius

[natephi]

That was amazing. Thank you so much for putting this together