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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i've got a radical feminist friend who detested 2049 on ideological grounds. i spaced out the discussion at the time so i probably couldn't repeat her arguments today, but an online search should throw results.
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Well, full spoiler mode for any of the lurkers who might not have seen the movie yet: Ana De Arma's character is fabricated to be the object of Ryan Gosling's (I think his name was K?) desires and the rest of the female representation was either involved in prostitution, evil, bigoted, mainly someone the second protagonist is looking for or absent due to being a fridged formally pregnant macguffin - oh also brought back as a facsimile meant to tempt said second protagonist only to be killed off in an instant again. I wasn't too happy with the representation either. To be fair, a lot of that criticism can be directed towards the prior movie as well. However, I thought it was a bit less over the top and blatant there, barring that one awful scene of course. I guess, I just had some more updated expectations going in, knowing it's a 2017 movie.
Oh, and, maybe I dreamt that up, but wasn't it also hinted at that Deckard and Rachel were sort of destined/programmed to fall in love with each other in the sequel? I mean, wouldn't that completely undermine the humanist approach of the first movie - replicants being able to develop free will, a conscience of their own, if you will?