r/bladerunner

Bravo Squad, right side, third name down.

From The Expanse TV show.

Painted prototype at an overseas show.

The main shelf and the other stuff you can't see.....

I've always hated brutalism, but a few brutalist buildings in Montreal have always caught my eye beyond the obvious Habitat 67 and Montreal Metro. This is Le Rigaud and I don't know why, but I find it stunning. This is probably because I was a Blade Runner fanboy as a kid. Second pic is basically what I think about every time I see it. Am I crazy?

Montreal has a ton of brutalist architecture which has been preserved, unlike other major North American cities where it was torn down. Some still look like absolute garbage like the McGill library, Complexe Desjardins (sorry), while some I used to hate but now I love like Place Bonaventure. Since they added the neon outline around the building, it basically looks straight out of Tron and amazing. Palais des congrès used to look like a massive hostile bunker until it was extensively de-brutalized only 15 years later. Looks much better IMO.

But Le Rigaud looks amazing the way it is. Brutalism is actually all about equality, honesty, authenticity, anti-bourgeois, anti-superficial, social democracy. Didn't matter as it aged poorly and looked ultra dystopian. But I think Le Rigaud, Bonaventure, are sort of circling back to those original themes. I don't know. Should we save these or tear them down?

It's one of my favorite movies

“…Do you enjoy your work, officer?”

I love this little scene so much, it’s such a subtle little exchange but creates such a significant ripple in how I view Luv and Ks duality/ rivalry.

I could understand reading this as Luv testing him, or (my opinion) she genuinely likes K and is flirting with him. Either way it’s ambiguity is a small part what makes this film so special, and such a great sequel.

Its an OLED screen if that can help.

And again, free league delivered an absolutely stunning game

What's everyone's take on this? Price isn't bad, but how accurate is it to the Deckard 2049 spinner?

Theory: Actually, Luv is the real daughter of Rachael/Deckard.

Luv was conceived in that very sexual relationship where Deckard was agressive and pushed Rachael.

There are several parallels and similarities between her and Rachael.

In the HQ (Blade Runner 2039) Wallace only says Luv is constructed by him, but he could be lying.

Ana Stelline maybe know much more about Luv than we are told. There are several gaps in the movie. And the parents of Ana are others.

And is possible that K at the end arrives to this conclusion.

He persecute Luv not just to save Deckard, but also to kill Luv. Luv as a leader of the replicants could be extremaly dangerous.

He says to Deckard "You died in that car which drowned".

Plus: there are some references to Sylvia (gemini), whose birthday is ten years before the enigmatic date of the film. The director is playing with binaries: 01, 10....
Sylvia is the first one of June. June is the mother of IUV-entus.

Sylvia means something like forest, wild, and when K visits Ana for the first time, she is creating a memory in a forest.

Of course, there is also the theory where Luv and K were twin brothers.