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Why do I never see anyone talking about Joi and what an exquisitely-crafted character she is? The last time I watched 2049, she kind of upstaged K to me. She never comes up in discussions about this movie and that’s a crime https://twitter.com/netflixfilm/status/1253456846368567297">https://twitter.com/netflixfi...
The beats of her arc and her role in the story escalate and beg new questions at such a perfect pace and always play meaningfully into connection the viewer in K& #39;s emotional experience, as well as hers, if indeed she can be said to have one
Clearly no one asked, but I, for one, think Joi, even if she is programmed to act like she loves K, or if she is programmed to love him, she is capable of understanding his wants and his emotional needs even when he doesn& #39;t express them, and that is an expression of honest love
The way she talks about wanting to "be real" for K, her understanding of his conflicting desires to be both special and human, and her last words desperately expressing her love for him... There& #39;s no way that& #39;s in her programming
As artificial and inauthentic as she is meant to seem in the film& #39;s opening minutes, she& #39;s clearly thinking and feeling things much deeper than that as her and K& #39;s journey plays out. At least by the end, se loves him absolutely, in a way she could not have been programmed to
The only thing that throws any of this into doubt for me is the "you look like a good Joe" moment after her death, which makes everything muddier
But the fact that she dies in the first place, the fact that she is willing to reside solely from the emanator, is a sacrifice she consciously makes to protect K& #39;s safety
K is obviously fascinating, he’s one of my favorite characters in all of cinema, but he really just evokes the same questions Deckard did so long ago, from a new angle. Joi is entirely an entirely new concept in 2049 and brings with her a whole new series of ideas
