Blade Runner 2049: Do Souls Have Birthdays? (Genesis 2:7)
K is a replicant—an artificial human designed to obey. When he discovers evidence that a replicant gave birth, his world shatters. If replicants can reproduce, what separates them from humans? K asks his AI companion Joi if she thinks he has a soul. She cannot answer. Genesis records that God formed human from dust and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The question Blade Runner asks is the question every generation must answer: What makes a human? Is it birth? Memory? Soul? K's journey reveals that the answer may not matter in the way we expect—his choices, his sacrifices, his love make him more human than his human creators. Perhaps the breath of life is recognized not in origin but in action.
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