Blade Runner 2049 ending. Deckard meets his daughter for the first time. Cyberpunk environment

Blade Runner 2049’ is the Best Cyberpunk Film Since: K stages Deckard’s death to protect him from Wallace and the replicant freedom movement before taking Deckard to Stelline’s office and handing him her toy horse. As K lies motionless on the steps, looking up at the snowing sky, Deckard enters the building and meets his daughter for the first time. The ending also provides a powerful resolution to Deckard’s story. We learn that a hunter (Deckard) had become the hunted (the movie keeps it ambiguous as to whether or not he’s a replicant, but either way, his daughter is a “miracle”) and that he had gone into exile in order to keep Ana (daughter) safe. Although he had to fake his death to meet his daughter, this meeting at least provides Deckard with some solace and hope, two things he had pretty much given up on. It’s a bittersweet ending, but it comes to a definitive conclusion about its characters. K’s Pinocchio-like journey from replicant to human is defined by his actions, slowly moving away from being a