Except it wasn't a miracle because Tyrell designed her that way as a replicant reproduction experiment. The other replicants, i.e. Bautista's character, don't know that and thus think the birth was a miracle.
The realisation of this is one of the saddest parts of the film and I glossed over it at the time. It wasn't until I reflected on it that it hit me.
Oh crap, I cant believe I missed this. This makes the story even better. Like that classic sci-fi premise where an alien/future society discovers something mundane, out of context, and applies some religious significance to it
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Is it just me, or did others think Replicants were androids? There was even a tweet from a review about how Gosling was perfect for playing a emotionally-muted robot. It wasnt till the opening crawl here that I realized that they were actually a bioengineered race.
And I really enjoyed this. I liked that Blade Runner and 2049 were so different in their overall structure and story, such that 2049 doesnt feel like its trying to one-up the original. The original was a small simple story set in a world that felt much grander, while this story felt larger and was more of a mystery-chase thriller.
The sci-fi themes and ideas in this made me smile while watching. I mean, one of the main supporting characters is an AI. K having a relationship with an AI, and the questions that raises in how it mirrors humans and replicants, and it all being programming was the kind of sci-fi musing I love, and I didnt expect to get that from a Blade Runner movie.
Also, shifting the themes of memory from what is human to how can you tell if a memory is real or fake, and what does that mean for ones inventory felt like a smart expansion of the original.
This movie was gorgeous. The originals grimy dirty future is still there, now 30 years more advanced, 30 years more ruined and damaged by climate. It felt authentic and weathered and very carefully designed in how such a world would change over time.
At first, I thought the replicant revolution plot point felt too typical dystopian, but in hindsight, thats the likely evolution from the isolated events of replicants rebelling that we hear about in the original. And Im so glad that the finale wasnt a big attack/rebellion; I was really kind of expecting that when that element was introduced.
Letos Wallace was the weak link here. He worked in the sense of his role in the story, but he felt like an overdone retread of Tyrell. I did like the notion of him using a brain implant and camera drones to see.