RE: Symbolism in Blade Runner 2049 | Finding the Pattern of Reality
Hello Jonathan,
I am so thankful to have come across your post here. I had watched this installment of Blade Runner and found it on one hand a truly disturbing vision for almost what is presented as inevitable and yet furtively hopeful in conclusion. Your merging and discussing of the various symbols involved helped me think a bit more deeply why I experienced it as I did. (In fact now I want to re-watch it and catch a bit more through the lens you offered)
One thing that came to mind as I was watching your video was actually a quote from Augustine about how the heart is always restless until it finds its rest in God. In many ways it seems that this movie is a riff on that theme - the restlessness of the heart that is split between as you present the masculine / feminine but also the technocrat / and the "ghost." It hearkens for me back to thinking about how in Genesis it speaks of the act of creation being the (to coin a word) "inspiriting" of God's breath into the physicality of clay. That the Adam is not "alive" unless both are fully present and then to go one step further that even Adam himself isn't really complete until there is Eve who is to be his union and therefore an extension of God's ongoing creative act. So much good stuff here!
Thank you so much for giving much to chew on. I look forward to seeing more and I'll try not to be a pest, but I do love engaging in all this sort of thing.
Peace to you and nice to make your acquaintance.
-Eric aka @genxrev