#absolute tangent

[mindlessjellyfishthoughts]

I was trying to describe why I loved Blade Runner 2049 to my friend.

It’s a little complicated?

*spoilers*

At that point in time I watched Blade Runner 2049 I was feeling really low and i was thinking about the world so negatively. And I was just thinking that I feel so useless and worthless and unable to do anything to help people and this world because there is just so much and like whatever I do means nothing anyway.

Mind you, I was clowning and bashing on the first movie (sorry not sorry original Blade Runner fans) and i only liked the end—when I got to the end of the original blade runner and the tears in the rain speech happened and roi talks about everything he went through and ends it by saying “all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.” I was like yeah existentialism like i hate this movie but i liked that moment so it pushed me to watch the next one and then blade runner 2049

Now a critique I heard but don’t necessarily agree with is that the pacing of 2049 was bad—personally I love the pacing. Movies don’t always have to be attention grabbing “shooty-shooty bang bang!” And I was able to let my thoughts be quiet

I was also like completely was enamored by the visuals

It kind of feels like visiting a bleak future that will happen, with ads everywhere in your face, smog, more industrialism, homelessness, the rising sea levels because of global warming like everything i kinda expect in the future

And when we meet K and he’s just doing his thing and after investigating he has this idea that he could be special, that he could be the child born from a human and a replicant, and mean something (of course Joi was affirming this belief because she is an ai who is attuned to the wants of the customer and instills a confirmation bias in K)

And then its all taken away when it is revealed that he was never the child—he is just an ordinary replicant.

I was like YEAH

Because i dislike when main characters are special if that makes sense. I love it when its just your average person and they are dragged along into the story. Here, obviously he wasn’t really dragged into it, because he was always a piece to the puzzle.

And in the end he didn’t mean anything to anyone really. He brought deckard and ana together and reunited them and died alone.

But it meant something to me the viewer. We know what he did and what we went through. In a world where everything tells him he means nothing and is hated for being a “skin job” which btw he didn’t fucking chose to be born so wtf, hate the corporation that made him, anyways

Which i hate ai. I hate ai so much it hurts. I like that theres the distinction between a replicant and what joi is—he is blood flesh and bone thats been genetically engineered and enhanced which synthetic biology—he, through experience has conciousness, had life, has thoughts and feels—but again joi was never really her own person

And K becomes his own person, he liberates himself, and with his first REAL act of free will, no strings attached, he wants to give someone else that happy ending

And it resonates with me because even though it may mean nothing, ana and deckard might be separated, they might live together away from everyone and not lead the rebellion or whatever, it might amount to nothing in the grand scheme but it means EVERYTHING to them as individuals

And as someone who has struggled with finding purpose in life (but I mean, who doesn’t?) because people say purpose is what you chose it to be or what makes you happy, my thoughts were always like nothing lasts so whats the point

And its true that it doesn’t last but he had that effect. It didn’t have to be that he was this grand “child”, that he would be leading the revolution—instead, his effect, his purpose maybe, his first real choice was to reunite the family, something he never had and

I was thinking about this movie from the context of how people treat others as less than human for their differences but in this movie its that K is a synthetic human and so i was expecting more on these themes of oppression and discrimination of replicants and other people and they didnt deep dive

To sum up; I like the thoughts it provokes more than the movie

I disagree that dying is the most human thing we can do, i think it’s having empathy for others and connection, and experience i suppose

I love the concept that love is artificial between k and joi and that the entire movie he seeks love and when he is unable to attain it for himself, he attempts to bring others together and have what he could not

I love that everything is bleak but theres something you can look for even if it’s small

I actually really like the music in the movie accompanied by the visuals. I live for a beautiful film aesthetic.

But yeah, these are just the opinions of a mindless jellyfish who doesn’t actually have eyes so what do I know lol

[passionfruitslushie]

tired of seeing ridiculous labels on food in the USA

“fat free”

bitch fuck off.

who cares

i’m about to eat pure sugar and you’re going to tell me it’s fat free so that what, i feel less guilty?

are people honestly that ignorant that they would see a fat free label on pure sugar peeps and they would feel more secure about their choice in eating it or? is it out there just to help fuel denial? do people actually fall for this crappy marketing?

for what reason, honestly, is that put on the package? do corporations just think people will feel better about eating junk food if it has a “fat free” label or do consumers really feel that way?

someone explain this to me

i realize the general public is ignorant about health and nutrition in general, but the majority can’t be that ignorant, are they?

or is it just because we live in the land of eating disorders that having that kind of useless information on the package is meant for the people who need to live in some kind of denial at all times about food? (especially food that is purely junk but good for the soul) (no judgement, i too have an eating disorder)

i guess it’s probably a catch-all for everyone mentioned but. anyway. seeing labels like this is a pet peeve of mine i guess. along with the fake “healthy” green and brown packaging (or the same kind of packaging for fake “natural” beauty products) and any other kind of packaging and marketing i guess that is clearly meant to trick ignorant consumers into thinking they’re consuming something they’re not.