The deadbeat dad theme is an element that Hollywood has used many times over the last decade or so.
Along with the misandrist/feminist messages designed to guilt-trip men while also symbolically castrating them by holding them accountable for perceived injustices, all done through obvious Hollywood propaganda, the message that often appears is of rejected fatherhood duties.
With divorce rates always bordering around 50%, the deadbeat dad theme is more than just a statistic. It’s a real-life situation for many people.
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| Blade Runner 2049 |
Harrison Ford ironically also played another deadbeat dad in his return to his Han Solo character he made famous decades prior.
When The Force Awakens was released in 2015, audiences saw Solo revert to his anti-hero ways with a son who became a villain.
In Blade Runner 2049, Deckard’s relationship with his child is even worse than in The Force Awakens. At least he knew for a fact what happened to his son, Ben. In 2049, he doesn’t even know if his kid is alive. Deckard lives out his days as a drunkard in a destroyed version of Las Vegas, completely oblivious of what happened to Racheal or his child.
Does he even know that she died in childbirth? I don’t think so.
2049’s use of Deckard, it feels, is just shoe-horned in to connect it with the original. Deckard’s presence is so unnecessary that the story could have gone on without him just fine. And what does it say about the offspring of a replicant and a human? She says she has a compromised immune system and cannot ever again be in direct contact with anyone or anything, and must live, basically, in total isolation, forever.
What kind of life is that? Seriously. And why would the writer allow that horrible fate to befall the messiah of the story?
Is that the goal that both Wallace and the underground replicants are fighting for? A new race of hybrids that cannot physically coexist in nature and society?
There are so many problems with this movie.
