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⚠️⚠️ TW: MY OWN ANALYSIS + SPOILERS AHEAD! Shortly after the protagonist loses everything, he comes across a giant model of the same woman who used to be his AI girlfriend. He approaches her, perhaps seeking some kind of comfort, perhaps hoping to see the living image of the woman he once loved. It's a brutal scene, not only because of the way she invites him to buy her, assuring him that she will cure his loneliness, but also because of what she says right afterward. You see, to put it simply, the protagonist is a character who questions his memories, his humanity, and even his own existence within a corrupt system he has grown accustomed to living in. Because of their genetics, he isn't considered human because he is a replicant, a being artificially created to serve specific purposes. To keep him from straying from his objectives, he undergoes mental evaluations, during which they are asked questions to ensure they remain the compliant machines they are expected to be. That is, until his girlfriend convinces him otherwise. K, the protagonist, has no friends. He occasionally talks to his boss, but their relationship is strictly professional. So his AI girlfriend is his only real point of "contact" with the outside world, and as he begins to uncover clues suggesting that he might actually be human, his childhood memories (which are supposedly meant to be fabricated for replicants) start to take on a whole new meaning. They seem to be connected to reality, not nearly as fictional or made up as they should be. His girlfriend AI, Joi, encourages him and convinces him that he might be humanity's chosen one, someone important, a miracle. He could be the result of a human and a replicant falling in love, something that supposedly shouldn't exist, yet somehow does. "A real boy needs a real name. Joe. You're too important for K. Your mother would have named you Joe" Joi tells him, giving him that name at the very moment they become convinced that K might actually be human. But then we get to the revelation later on, it wasn't that K had simply gotten things mixed up. Everything was the result of a terrible, unfortunate coincidence. K was never the chosen one, never a miracle... He was just some guy. And then we return to that scene with the giant woman. After pointing at him and assuring him that she could be the cure for his loneliness, she says something incredibly revealing. "You look like a good Joe." It wasn't that Joi, his recently "deceased" AI girlfriend, had given him a special name. It was a generic one, a default name, the kind AI models use when you haven't given them your name yet. It's also a play on words in English, since "good Joe" is similar to calling someone a "nice guy". In other words, he was just an average Joe. And in reality, everything he had built with Joi came down to nothing more than code. He wasn't the chosen one, nor was he unique to the AI he had as a girlfriend. His relationship and bond with Joi were nothing more than the result of programming and code designed to create the illusion of a personal, intimate connection. So, did all of this lead to a... happy ending for the protagonist? He realized that that he wasn't the chosen one, but that he still was special enough to make the right choice, despite his unfortunate fate. #全世界都爱敖尹 #ValkolsLoved #BringBackValko