Upon seeing this film for a second time, and immediately following the final cut of the original 1982 film, it is shocking just how a film which is so stunning to look at can be so incredibly hollow. I came away feeling as though I had just watched a film made entirely out of (nearly 3 hours of) concept art. While everything on the surface of this film is decidedly cool; the aesthetic, the corporation's replicant agent Love, Ryan Gosling's…
