The Most Pause-Worthy Moments In Blade Runner 2049

In a love scene like no other, "Blade Runner 2049" creates a unique menage a trois with Joi, K, and a replicant named Mariette (Mackenzie Davis) that Joi has hired for the occasion. Paying off the genuine connection and longing that Joi and K have shown throughout the film, the scene is a surprising and tender interlude in a movie that's otherwise cold and ethereal. Heartbreakingly, Joi tells K she wanted to be "real," for him, like a sad science fiction version of the forlorn velveteen rabbit.

It's also visually one of the more stunning parts of the movie, as Joi and Mariette phase in and out of sync with one another in different moments. A truly psychedelic amalgamation of both actresses' faces and limbs waving in and through one another creates a love scene that's at once tasteful, emotional, and unlike anything in the "Blade Runner" franchise.