When K brings Joi with him and then loses her, he understands the weight of loss and love that Deckard has for Ana. While the Wallace corporation wants love to be nothing more than just another commodity they can sell, the relationship between K and Joi shows how love, and by proxy, humanity, can blossom anywhere even if the status quo would like to build a wall between humans and replicants. On the one hand, you could cut out all of the Joi stuff and the plot would be largely the same, but that love story-a story between a hologram and a replicant-is what gives weight to K’s actions.
What makes him significant comes from his choices, and ultimately, he chooses to sacrifice his life to save Deckard and reunite him with Ana.Īll of this is bolstered by K’s relationship with Joi. The script wisely embraces K’s insignificance on a macro level-he is, at the end of the day, just another replicant albeit one who has the memories of the world’s first hybrid. If K had been special simply by virtue of his birth, his story would be far less interesting since he didn’t control being born and he would still be a small part of a much larger narrative involving humans and replicants. If K had turned out to be Deckard’s kid, it not only would have been a little contrived and pat, but it also would have undermined the film’s thematic thrust that humanity is defined by action, not origins.
While there are bigger storylines happening around K-the fight to upend the world order by having replicants recognized as equal to humans, the Wallace corporation trying to find Deckard’s child for their own ends, Deckard’s reunification with his daughter-his story still packs a wallop as it’s a Pinocchio tale where the replicant finds a way to be a real boy.įor Blade Runner 2049, discovering humanity is not a matter of destiny or even parentage, which is good. K decides to help Deckard and reunite him with Ana, thus making his own determination to help something larger than himself. For K, realizing he’s not a replicant but a hybrid or next stage evolution is traumatic. For a human, realizing he or she might be a replicant would be traumatizing. When he realizes that his memories might be real and not implants, his calm resolve shatters, and Villeneuve turns the revelation on its head.
He dutifully follows orders, “retires” older model replicants, and then goes home to his holographic girlfriend, Joi ( Ana de Armas).Įventually, K’s investigation leads him to believe that the memories he thought were implants were actually real and that he’s the lost son of replicant Rachel ( Sean Young) and the possibly-a-replicant Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford). He’s called “Skinner” and “Skinjob” by his peers and neighbors, and despite being an outcast, he seems fairly at peace with his existence. He’s a newer model replicant that always obeys, and what’s more, K knows he’s a replicant.
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His full “name” is KD9-3.7, and he’s a replicant. Image via Alcon Entertainment / Warner Bros.Ī major reveal that’s been kept out of the marketing and (if critics acquiesced to director Denis Villeneuve’s request) reviews is that while Ryan Gosling’s character has officially been referred to as “K”, that’s a nickname.
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