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I always liked how, despite Deckard being a major part of 2049, whether or not he's a replicant (which I don't believe) doesn't matter at all.
The movie is about the fact that being human or replicant has no difference because both can feel the same thing.
With Deckards dog, K asked if the dog was real or not and deckard told him that he didn't care about the dog being real or fake.
I believe he is a replicant.
That's the amazing thing about the film and why I was really hesitant that their was a sequel being made. You can have a favorite cut of the original and view Deckard in a different way than others and yet 2049 will still be true to your version. It's crazy they pulled that off.
I've always thought that the original movie is more meaningful if it takes a synthetic person's emotions to draw out Deckard's buried-by-trauma emotions. If a "fake" person can love a "real" person then does it matter they're "fake"? Doesn't that make them just as "real"?
I think that interpretation also fits more neatly into 2049's story. "Real" and "fake" are a matter of intention, not origin.
But I fully agree that it was amazing that 2049 could pull off a sequel that satisfies both of sci-fi-fandom's legendarily-at-odds camps. An incredible movie. Every time I think that Hollywood is creatively bankrupt, one of these gems manages to slip through into the annals of sci-fi history.
There are absolutely great interpretations of both. The bubbling internal conflict of being a Blade Runner while also being a replicant, the fact that replicants are so indistinguishable from a human that only a replicant could do the job, the mind fuck of meeting a replicant that doesn't know they're one. The directors cut was my introduction to the film so I just gravitate towards it.