When Love is Just a Product (Blade Runner 2049) 🦾🚀 #shorts

This Blade Runner 2049 movie edit covers how corporations consumerize basic human emotions and experiences and when love is just a product. Officer K, Joe, is a replicant who goes through life alone, with his only relationship being a virtual companion product named Joi, who provides emotional support and companionship. Officer K becomes emotionally attached to Joi and considers her his girlfriend. However, when she gets destroyed, he has to confront the fact that she is ultimately just a product and not a real person. As another version of Joi recites the infamous line, "You look lonely. I can fix that.".

[DiscreteMustelid]

I will say this, Ryan Gosling really nailed the quiet agony of a man fully knowing the cold hard math of his situation, and still, wanting desperately to believe the beautiful lie he is being sold. We’ve all done it in our own way. When he loses that lie, is when he both starts to live and dies, all at once.

[narm_greyrunner]

Every time I hear the "Yes. Like a real girl" line. I get goosebumps.

[eddy]

"You look lonely, i can fix that"


*gets more lonelier*

[AwfulWeather]

This films depiction of the future is frighteningly valid with the way things are going atm

[gaspartiznado]

I used to work at an AMC. I was working when this movie came out. I had had a particularly horrible day when I decided to watch Blade Runner 2049 right after my shift ended. These scenes had me crying.

[ascheweiss]

K‘s relationship with his Joy is one of the most beautiful thing in this story, in a world where AIs and replicants are even more humane than humans.

[MichaelMCDoesntExist]

One of the very few Times when a Sequel to a classic movie actually delivered

[penguins]

In 2017 I watched it, I didn't feel anything. Now in 2023 I watch this movie again, I cried a lot, I can feel his pain, I understand loneliness and depression...

[anri]

Dude, when she said “I love you” and disappeared, probably saddest moment of the movie…

[harrisongwin]

"Like a real girl" made me cry

[cameronmckay]

That line though is so key. Because before that she seems like a product saying what you want to hear. But this sort of sacrifice for a greater good gives her a sense of humanity. "The most human thing you can do"

[Spoofff]

Of course these shorts pop up when I'm fighting heartbreak lol

[FossilizedKindness]

Joi is more than her copy-paste template, she is her choice of words, her personality. That is something no other, Joi can replicate, her mannerisms and one-time experiences.

[slackstarfish]

This movie is just visually stunning. People will look back in this as more and more of a masterpiece the more time passes

[harryvlo]

bro this made me feel bad.
like her last words were I LOVE YOU

[jtksktlds]

" All those moments will be lost in time like Tears in Rain "

[interspacer]

When she runs to make sure he knows he's loved, just before being deleted (after voluntarily becoming 'mortal'), that's the affirmation she actually did, and had moved far beyond her programming, into a place only they could be, together.

[huwguyver]

The scene where the factory-settings Joi is flirting with K was such a gut-punch moment. All the years he and his version of Joi shared together are now gone forever. Yet there she is, someone who looks just like her, but she has no memory of him at all. The pain on his face in that moment, my god. What a scene!

[CrimsonKobaNakirigumi]

Loving someone that doesn't truly exist. Been there.

[EVH]

No joke that's the best compilation cut of their relationship I have seen so far.. I love the movie and the chemistry between them.