You missed the beautiful and heartbreaking realization K has when he meets the giant Joi commercial and she calls him Joe.. because that is what she calls all her buyers, not just him.

the moment when he realises hes just an ordinary joe was one of the most brilliant pieces of storytelling

I didn't think the scenes were too slow because I was too in love with the photography.

Nobody mentions the importance of Deckards dog in 49. In the first movie,  he was obsessed with finding a "real" animal; constantly asking people "Is it real?" whenever he sees an animlal. When K asks him the same thing he replies "I dont know, ask him." He knows now that the circumstances of your creation doesn't make you real or not. So just like Deckard being a replicant or not, it doesn't matter. And it was a hint, intentional or not, that K must also decide for himself if he is 'real'.

Fun Fact: JJ Abrams would have made that "Finding the wooden horse" scene in jump cuts, totaling 14.2 seconds.

Cool thing to note with the children in the movie, the boys are all buzzcut while the girls get to keep short but longer hair so once you see k's implanted memories you immediately know it's not his because the "little k" has longer hair than the boys

That line in the script about Luv being '...beautiful. The way a sword is beautiful when safely behind glass' is a such a good line, and 99.9% of people who saw the film never heard it.

41:09 this moment is an underrated moment for the characterisation for Replicants. Cruelty is such a human act, there is no logic for it except self gratification. When Love “kills” joy there’s no rhyme or reason for it except pure cruelty. She wants K to suffer and I believe that makes her human

He starts the movie waking up and ends it falling back asleep forever. All his emotions and experiences gone forever, like tears in rain.

One thing that always hits me about this movie is that Officer K basically is, for all intents and purposes, Deckard's son. In the end you learn that he wasn't actually born, BUT he was still implanted and raised with the memories of Deckard's biological child. Whether he was born or not, I feel that his story is about saving his father and reuniting his family. Not to sound like Jordan Peterson, but the movie makes constant references to Pinocchio with Joi's "Real boy" lines, and K's fight to save Deckard in the ocean reflects Pinocchio saving his father from the whale.

The poignant aspect to Joi is that she expresses concern and jealousy for Joe when he is unconscious or not present. When he is knocked out in the car, when she speaks to Mariette. It’s a hint - but not irrefutable confirmation - that she might be sapient. Not perfect evidence, but enough to ask the question - IE, that she is not a façade that only exists when Joe is facing her.

Decker being less relatable than the replicants is not only intentional, it is a major part of the story and plays into it's themes

The most striking and lingering feeling I had about this film is that I was so impressed by Denis Villeneuve's willingness to SAVOUR the moments, yes it's a slow film but the moments are lived, they're  experienced for their natural lengths, they're not just flashes of action and on to the next. I loved that about this film, it's so mature and felt.

I love the long build up to finding the horse. With how slowly he walks, & reaches into the furnace, its almost like he doesn't want the horse to be there, because everything that would mean.

I don't know how I missed K's death at the end, I thought he was just extremely physically and emotionally exhausted but also relieved that everything is concluded... like he has figured out everything and lost everything in pursuit of the truth. I didn't realize this was his death.....

Something I want to add about Joi. A couple times in the movie there are shots where it’s shows an advertisement for Joi with the words “Everything you want to hear.” I think Joi was also this voice of Joe’s inner desire to be real, human, and loved. She tells him these things that he deeply hopes he actually is. And he pushes back on it up verbally (wrestling with his previous belief as a replicant vs what he aspires to be) until the memory is confirmed to be real.

Excellent video. I remember reading this somewhere:

He wasn’t the chosen one—he was the one who chose.

"is it real"   "I dunno, ask him."   THAT is the better statement from the movie. Allowing a creature the dignity of self-determination, is the basis for all respect.

I thought K’s “miracle” was realizing how joi legitimately loved him, and that he loved her. She sacrificed herself for him. And then when he see’s the add for joi after that, how fake it is, he understands how his connection was so much more real then anything that could be simply manufactured. That joi was real. And thats when he decides to help deckard have that connection.

One theory I saw was that K was a true child. The flower he finds has 2 stems, representing a set of twins. And the replicant revolutionary who says she was there for the birth was missing an eye, which could be symbolic of seeing only part of the truth. I dunno what to think but it’s really interesting