Gorgeous

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2018)

WOW! I really don't know where to start here. This movie is stunning, an instantaneous classic. It's one of those films, that you really need to push yourself to find something "bad", or even "not good".
The photography/cinematography of this movie is one of the most gorgeous that I ever see. Almost every frame here is amazing, beautiful, poetic. The scenario, the look, the production design, really, everything is fantastic. In my opinion, this is a movie that everyone who love cinema have to see. I was blown away through every minute of it.
The soundtrack (as usual when you talk about Hans Zimmer's scores) is very raw and loud, alternating with some quite and calm moments, and, my God! It works wonderfully. I love the score, it's unique, simple, and powerful.
Ryan Gosling's performance it's fantastic, in fact, "K" is probably one of my favorite character in recent films, he has so many layers, such a unique conflict (I LOVE everything on this part of the movie. He is such a broken character, just trying to find his place in the world, and OMG, his story through the movie is brilliant, and surprising), and a lot those things are amplified with Ryan's performance. It's powerful, engaging, and unique. In my point of view, he is doing a better job here than in La La Land.
The last thing is the script, the story that the movie tells is at first odd, because at the end of it, you may think "well, what about Wallace? The rebelion? What happens now?", but, the movie is in fact just a story inside this big and dystopian futuristic world (like the original Blade Runner also was), at the end, this is the story that the movie wants to tell, the journey of K, trying to find his place in the world, but, at the end, realizing that maybe he doesn't have one as he thought he would have, he is not special, in fact, he is probably much fucked than the other replicants (he has real memories inside his head, and this isn't legal), this is sad, but at the same time also makes you sympathize more with the character, I simply love K.
The movie also approach a lot of deep themes, that clearly are reflections of our own world. Do the replicants have rights? Is it right to do they in order to be slaves? Can they live a happy life? These are all very deep and complex questions, that add to the movie even more layers.
The "what is real?" question that goes on and on throught the entire movie is also something that I love, and there also is in the original Blade Runner.
In short, to me Blade Runner 2049 is pure art, an amazing film, that doesn't try to build a big, and new franchise from it, doesn't want to open a new world, and be something that everyone can see, and enjoy, in other words, he doesn't try to please everyone, it's a movie for film lovers that I think that everyone that loves cinema needs to see. It's one of the most beautiful, and well made movies that I ever see.