Description: Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast joins us again to discuss the 3 Blade Runner shorts and wrap up the themes that cross over between Blade Runner 2019 and 2049. If you enjoyed the episodes on Blade Runner 2019 and Blade Runner 2049, you will definitely enjoy discussing how the movies fit together.

 

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2036 Nexus Dawn

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2048 Nowhere to Run

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Thanks again for joining us today. Today we are going to wrap up our series on blade runner and blade runner 2049 and the past three episodes. We've discussed these two movies and the really powerful themes they uncovered and discussed. Today. We're going to discuss how the two movies fit together and explore a few more issues that came up and just try and tie these two movies together. I'm very happy to be joined again by interest of the reconsider podcast and as we well know since you've listened to the three previous episodes, we know that reconsider as a political and current events podcast, Eric and as partners and or help you contextualize current politics and history and broader forces and political theory, reconsider helps you rise above the one liners, the 140 character politics and the tribal narrative and their motto is we don't do the thinking for you. Thank you so much for coming on for a fourth time, Eric. Oh yeah, my pleasure. I mean obviously I love your show

and one of the things I really love about talking about movies like this is it lets us look at, um, and by like this, I mean, I mean really good movies that do a great job exploring society, exploring humanity. They let us as people really look into humanity and looking to society today through in another place where it's sort of safe where we can say. Or we can say, Hey, what, what does this tell us about humans as a whole about society, about government, about how we get along with each other as a whole where we're not as emotionally tied up in it, right? Because this, this isn't our world. It's just a story. But we can learn a lot from it. And so it gives us this opportunity to ask some questions about ourselves that aren't as threatening. Whereas, you know, as, as I'm sure you're aware from the current political climate, if someone from your not from your political tribe asks these kinds of questions in a way that's not comfortable for you, you can get very defensive. And so movies can be a great place to be able to have some of those tough questions and when they're well built, they're. There are questions that are open to everyone. I think blade runner does a great job of that and I'm always happy to keep talking about it and other, you know, other great movies like that with you.

Yeah. This is just a great movie as a sandbox to see how a lot of different ideas can be played out. Yeah, exactly.

And the, I think the true brilliance of blade runner as a sci fi and something that is. I think the, the, what's it, the gold standard of CFI is it doesn't get us asking, oh, what happens when this technology comes around? That's interesting. Right? But it's an...