What does it mean to be human?

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2017)

Or, how could we answer, like Descartes, to the question "how do I know if I exists" or "what makes me an entity, a personality, a person?" Blade Runner 2049 is not designed to throw bullets in all directions, it's not a film that will pop your popcorn on your neck between two explosions. It's a movie of dilemmas, of questions, of doubt, of uncertainty.
What gives me the right to say that "I exist"? What feature, what property or what adjective, what line must be passed for "being"? Is love, or perhaps self-consciousness, an exclusive attribute of people that could not be touched, appropriated, approached by any elaborate software, code that burns any Turing test? Do I need a physical body, a humanoid form for "being," or real skin, or an adventurous one from a primate, to be able to proclaim my existence? Which of these "must-have social characters", or how many of these events should be uncovered to have the right to proclaim "I am"? Can Occam's Shirt also work here, finding the winner, the simplest answer?
Probably I could not stop asking questions too soon, because BR 2049 deeply deepens the philosophical mind of the viewer with his philosophical questions. It takes us to the realm of self-suggestion when we want to "dress" the most "synthetic" ways of living. In trying to get our right to exist, to be important, we get stories that seem to be ours, but is not ours.
The fact that we live in a "simulated presence" is no longer just a movie scenario. We live in a society that dictates us, in consumerism, living from inertia, job, family, responsibility, all the cultural conditioning that we are taught to learn from birth. But first of all we want to be special and we look with the fear of being just a software called "adn" that only has the ability to replicate itself. What makes us more than replicators?
I do not want to make more of this movie that it is. I just want to invite you to watch this movie in an introspective way, making yourself the screenwriters of this movie.
Actor play, innovative frames, some visual effects, make this long movie a pleasant and desirable one. Perhaps more music would have furthered some moments better. In conclusion, you are not guided by some reviews or by my way of understanding the movie. Go and live it, then write your own story.