{"id":2039,"date":"2018-08-22T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2021-03-15T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:58:27","slug":"symbols-and-allegory-in-blade-runner-2049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2018\/08\/22\/symbols-and-allegory-in-blade-runner-2049\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbols and Allegory in Blade Runner 2049"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Seth Williams<\/h1>\n<p>Ridley Scott&#8217;s film\u00a0<em>Blade Runner 2049\u00a0<\/em>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\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydlb0EnuMbw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Williams Ridley Scott&#8217;s film\u00a0Blade Runner 2049\u00a0features quite a bit of symbolic and allegoric imagery. In this examination of a single, isolated scene, one can grasp the despair and desolation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[360,358],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-studies","tag-film-reviews","tag-video","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}