Famed comic writer Mark Millar has come up with an intricate theory about Blade Runner 2049‘s ending that completely changes the film.
Most readings of the film take it as an underscoring of the themes of identity, but Millar thinks something different.
In the finale, Ryan Gosling’s K (a replicant Blade Runner) saves Harrison Ford’s Deckard from the clutches of villainous CEO Niander Wallace and allows him to reunite with his long-estranged daughter.
This would seem to answer the long-standing question of if Deckard is a replicant – he is – and makes the entire film one of father-daughter compassion.