The totem for memory in 'Blade Runner 2049' is a wooden horse, hidden not in an attic, but very near the furnaces of the ground floor of a horrifying factory. But already the images of "Blade Runner 2049" are seeping into the generic attic-room atmosphere I want to create for my own narrative purposes. So re-entering the "Blade Runner" world recreated by Denis Villeneuve has been a much anticipated, strange delight, akin to a sensation of going to the attic to look at the books and toys you have discarded once, not sure if you can understand the moral of that particular old book, or get the springs working in that once much loved toy horse. It has been with me for decades like a childhood memory, experienced once, but certain aspects of which have been told and retold by myself and my elders - film critics. Although I never went back to the film or the book I have made references to it in my own work. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and did a project on it. I watched the original 1982 version of Blade Runner at a very impressionable age and it raised my awareness, more than any other work of art, about what being human meant, what a soul might be, and what purpose memories serve.
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