La esperanza como cuestión política: el futuro de la identidad de la clase trabajadora en Blade Runner 2049

Since its origin, science fiction cinema has used the topic of the artificial human to represent the working class instrumentalized by the productive elites, which has given rise to copious sociological reflection on the matter. Based on it, this article seeks to account for the anticipatory scenario projected in the futuristic film Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017) in contrast to the current reality and what is exposed in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, to respond to the concerns that poses the future of the working class. The analysis shows a polarized society where clones (replicants) are enslaved to maintain human life; The middle class has disappeared and the blade runner is now aware of being a replicant-servant, but this has not deactivated the ideology but has submerged him in another one that is even more effective and paralyzing. This is only the starting point of the dystopia that, unlike its namesake, also offers a prospective scenario with a constructionist and desirable nature that invites social change through a unique metafictional revolutionary agent. Villeneuve turns his film specifically and narrative fiction, in general, into an ally of the oppressed classes; He grants it a structural emancipatory role capable of reversing the lack of systemic hope and overcoming the diffuse cynicism that annuls identities in the tired society of the future, promoting personal and collective action.