With a new corporation at hand, Wallace, and a new series of obeying replicants, it is set clearly in the steps of its predecessor. The film goes three decades further in the universe created by the author Philip K Dick, for we are already in 2017 and his dystopian world was based in 2019. And so I found myself watching Blade Runner 2049, a film that the millennials would uphold with ferocity and the Generation X would accept with quiet reservations. Yet, some ideas are such that it is hard to leave them behind, especially for a profit seeking movie studio. The idea of future is slowly becoming a dreadful reality and it has been easier for us to move to a parallel dimension where heroes and superpowers hold our attention. Maybe the footpath astrologers with their pet parrots should take note. I am no different, except I like my predictions on a 35mm screen with a heavy dose of background music. The business of future, after all, has always intrigued human beings. I assume it is the mystery and excitement of glimpsing into the future, much like looking into a Magic-8 ball or talking to an astrologer. Science fiction in film attracts even the unlikeliest of people to cinema.

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