Symbols and Allegory in Blade Runner 2049

Media Studies

Seth Williams

Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner 2049 features quite a bit of symbolic and allegoric imagery. In this examination of a single, isolated scene, one can grasp the despair and desolation left from a society that has run itself ragged in pursuit of its own hedonism. Is there now any hope left for the people of Blade Runner?

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