On Blade Runner 2049

A pinocchio story for a digital age, Blade Runner 2049 moves in directions that are unexpected, takes it times and reaches a point of uncomfortable intensity, before ending with subtle beauty. It explores so much about our relationships with each other and with technology, as well as, and like the first film, about fathers and sons. Yes, there are questions to be asked about its treatment of women, but the feelings K has for his Joi are hard to brush aside as being purely pleasurable. This is also surely the best photographed film of the year.