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DominicCobb
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18-May-2018, 1:31 PM

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

TV’s Frink said:

Nah, screw that. Explain the point the filmmaker is trying to make with the last scene of Joi.

Nah, screw that. I don’t care what you think the intent was. It’s terribly exploitative and “Blade Runner has a woman problem” seems spot on to me.

Which one do you actually want? You’re playing with my emotions here.

I don’t really care. Do whatever you like.

Well if you’re actually curious

There is no reason for Joi to be naked here except to titillate the audience, especially when one considers that the actress who plays her wasn’t fully undressed in prior scenes. Here, she could have been clothed and offered the same or even a stronger message: that K is lonely without her.

Except the point here is that the fully clothed (or, fully formed) version of Joi is dead. That Joi was for K a real person. Their relationship was real. When K was with her, he wasn’t lonely. And when she died, she died for real. If he saw a fully clothed Joi, that would’ve made the deceased Joi less real - oh she’s not really dead, there she is. But the naked Joi - almost unrecognizable with the pink skin, blue hair and black eyes - is this blank slate. She’s nothing but literally an advertisement. Exploited, objectified, used as a prop to titillate and sell. She’s not real at all, she’s not Joi, which is what affects K the most in that moment.

(This all leads to reminding K of the “real” thing that he once had that healed his loneliness that is now gone. Which inspires him to save Deckard and help him find his “real” thing that will cure his loneliness before it’s too late.)