These replicants are human-like constructs, and no more-a clever blend of sophisticated machine and fabricated memory and one whopper of a motherboard. Never mind that they fight and bleed and sometimes beg to live. K’s job, like that of all blade runners, is to hunt down rogue replicants and “retire” them. But they’re seen as threats to the natural order of things, which keeps blade runners like K employed. Some earlier replicants run on as well-if, that is, they’ve run away. They’ve been designed to obey implicitly, eliminating the wayward tendencies of earlier models. They’re more “human” than ever, thanks to implanted memories. Replicants-engineered human facsimiles-populate this era, both on-world and off. Not in the world of 2049, where the line between man and machine is so very, very thin. What makes us human? What makes us special? What makes our life … life?
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