If the scene of K, Joi, and Mariette's trio is regarded as the Love Scene of this film, it's hard to say that I feel the Love part from it.
I had watched the 1982 Blade Runner Love Scene over and over again, and Rachel had a very emotional encounter at Deckard's house after she learned that she might also be a clone. The reason why I found this scene shocking is probably because I unknowingly substituted Rachel's character. After her inner world collapsed, it can be felt that her way of rebuilding her identity is no longer by relying on memory, but relying on love, affirming her own existence by affirming her rich inner world.
This part that is separated from pure reason and can be crazy is the proof of the existence of the soul. So for replicants, Love is the only way to the soul, just like in a song, You are what you love.
In the Love Scene in 2049, similar to the one in 1982, K also learned that he might be a unique individual, a complete person with a precious Soul, and then confronted Joi again. At this moment, there should be countless emotions erupting in his heart, and it should even be out of control. But in the face of Joi and Mariette, it seems to return to rationality, and even Joi is more convinced than he is that he is unique.
Joi is attached to Mariette, and Mariette has become Joi's physical container, almost unconsciously cooperating with K and Joi's mechanical lust. Although Joi has no entity, she is more like a human being. She has desire, jealousy, and even hopes to sacrifice herself in exchange for feelings. This kind of love with destruction goes beyond her own setting as a virtual partner. She is more like emergent the existence of the soul. On the other hand, K, in the whole movie, I can't find a place where he expresses his emotions clearly and affirmatively. He is hesitant to face Joi, more like attachment than love. Mariette is very similar to K. She is also instrumental. She does not feel the slightest disgust because she is objectified, but cooperates with this possessive performance.
This weird Love Scene even made me feel faintly disgusting. Is this a halftime sex show deliberately arranged to advance the plot? Joi's hand and Mariette's hand overlapped and hugged K's head. All I thought of was the alien head hugger, cold and desperate, and couldn't really feel any love.
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