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Blade Runner 2049

Why Theory

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Is Every Desire a Desire?

The film is a direct commentary on the cynical position, which develops from this. I think it's saying that thereis no revolutionary subjectivity without some way in which your desire gets engaged. Theres just this incredible moment where he finds, you know, it's the impossible thing happens. Eall have this lost object that constitutes us. It's impossible to find because we never really lost it. And he goes back and actualhy finds it.

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