WHAT made BLADE RUNNER 2049 OUTSTANDING is WHAT makes human TERRIFIED OF REPLICANTS

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2018)

Blade Runner 2049, a sequel having been expected for over 30 years, introduced a new thought for the old question, "what defines a man?", which made this movie single out in its counterparts.
This new thought is "the ability of sexual reproduction", yet before discussing it, I would prefer questioning ourselves first, "what makes replicants so terrifying."
If a technology allows us modifying or customizing a physical body, rather more, memories and personalities, in somehow way, it also enables us to perfectly copy a naturally-born man. Being copied is the most terrifying part in any biological replication issue because it straightly threatens a cognition being long engraved in humanity, "I am unique." The uniqueness in each individual has been proved in today's science and in our genes. Remind you, even though twins resemble in appearance, inside they still differ from genes. Besides, considering ourselves unique does reinforce our mental strength and even becomes an inseparable and key ingredient to shape a man. To put it briefly, uniqueness is one of the elements that define a man, and the emergence of replicants can easily topple and break this belief.
However, we could still console our hearts with a somehow kind of excuse, "Being designed and made in the lab doesn't give uniqueness." This is certainly not only an excuse but a bloodily fact for replicants. They are controlled by naturally-born men's will, which is against an imperative component of uniqueness, randomness, yet this problem will be solved if replicants are able to reproduce themselves by human-like sex which is also called "sexual reproduction", a new challenge brought in the old question by this movie. Sexual reproduction coincides with the variety of inheritance, in other words, with the randomness; therefore, naturally-born men tell no more difference from replicants' children, and this comes to a paradox: if they are the same, why should they be distinguished in two categories? Wait a moment, are they really same? In the film, replicants are built to have superior physical strength to naturally-born human's. Furthermore, what really matters is being same doesn't guarantee getting together in harmony. Remember the lesson history has taught us, we fight not with the different species but with anyone who jeopardizes the benefits. Combined with the two reasons, if naturally-born men wage a war to replicants and their generations, little can the men win it, which in likelihood the men lose the title, "the king of species". Hence, the only way to prevent this situation is to prohibit them to reproduce, to seal any information about replicants' ability to get pregnant, to keep order, the quote from Lieutenant Joshi, played by Robin Wright.
Blade Runner 2049 not only raises the old question but arouses more like "what is order?", "what is morality?", or "who decides what defies order and morality?" These questions are corollaries because asking "what defines a man?" at the same time asks "what does not define a man?" ; therefore, it comes plentiful cases waiting to defy and subvert the knowledge we have now. Deeper you get in this film, bigger you discover. However, if you don't want to get these things bothered, just relax and appreciate scenes and sounds!