The saddest part about this scene is I feel like we aren't actually far off from this being a reality. People are becoming more and more lonely.

This scene alone deserves an Oscar for visual effects.

I love the fact the Joi isn't fully synchronized with her for the whole scene. Making it look like she is supposed to be an advance AI, capable of executing tasks fluently but here she is imperfect just like how a human is. Just goes to show that she did indeed exceeded her programming

Jesus, the replicants in this film were more human than the human characters. Anna De Armas was *phenomenal* as Joi.

probably the only "love scene" in a movie I don't find tedious and wasteful, this actually added to the film.

Best part of this is how imperfect the synch is

I saw two women do this in a bar once. I was extremely intoxicated at the time

Best "intimate" scene in any movie, PERIOD. It wasn't just about the sex, and was so creative with how they did it! It's the first sex scene in ANY movie that has ever blown my mind and made me actually enjoy rather than cringe!

Notice that when they kiss, Joi and K/Joe's eyes are closed meanwhile Mariette has them open.

My favorite thing about this scene is the fact that no one present is “human”. K and Mariette are replicants and Joi is a hologram, but yet this feels like the most intimate love scene possible between “products” that are considered expendable by humans.

My mind was blown the entire scene.

He looks traumatized/disturbed. Like he's doing it for her actually and not for himself. Very sad scene when you view it like that.

Probably my new favorite love scene of all time. It’s so beautiful, steamy, romantic & sad all at the same time.

This was the most underrated movie of 2017. Wished it got more recognition and made more money in the box-office!

I LOVED how they portrayed both persons: Joi, being the most shy one, "feeling" all those things for the first time, really "feeling" the moment. The girl doing her job, but already used doing this. The "delay" between the eye contact, the "I'm not sure, but I want" versus "Let's do this" it's subtle, but with a very deep meaning Some kind of "jealousy" of Joi. The conflict of interests, she wanting to do this, but with feeling jealous. The girl opening the eye while kissing, while Joi is just enjoying really passionate. Awesome

"Look at you." "Quiet, now I have to sync."

I wonder what Mariette felt throught this whole scene. She had to pretend to be someone's lover whilst also being ignored and having her body used. Probably painful for her too as she was getting loved but at the same time not loved. Overall, absolutely stunning scene.

I love the direction of this scene. The visual effects wizardry behind it is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, but even beyond that, I adore how romantic and intimate it feels without ever coming close to feeling exploitative, IMO at least. The camera doesn’t linger on nudity or the physical sex itself, nor is it interested in titilation for the audience. Instead, Villeneuve chooses to linger on the simpler intimacies that are significant to K and Joi (and even Mariette, to an extent) - a touch, a caress, the removing of a coat, a kiss...the very things that they’ve never been able to experience and now finally can share. Paradoxically, it makes this scene far more romantic and meaningful for the audience member making the effort to empathize with both K and Joi. I also love that it’s Joi who’s the initiator of this, and K is the initially hesitant party. There’s a moment in his eyes where you can see the switch flip and he starts to realize, “Y’know, I think I actually like this...” And for Joi, for all of the “Everything you want to see/hear” stuff she’s advertised as, her action here feels like it goes above and beyond that level of programming. “I want to be real for you,” she says. It’s never made explicit how much of her companionship with K was genuine versus programming, and it can be debated endlessly, but for me, this was as much for her as it was K. And after all, what is love for another person but our own internal programming that lets us desire to see and make them happy? Who’s to say that what K and Joi has wasn’t real? It sure seemed like it was for them, and after this scene, I think they both can finally say that it also felt real.

This scene is cinema history.

It angers me how perfect this scene is. The outstanding soundtrack. The mind-blowing visual effects. The scene direction. The indifference to nudity and sex shots, and focus on intimacy. Lastly, the emptiness that we feel deep down from how much we experience K's connection to Joi, but realize she was designed to behave like that.

i love how subtle the ‘futuristic’ effects in this film, not just this scene. not in your face but always on point and shows exactly what’s needed to be portrayed.

I think one under-appreciated aspect of this scene is how it is one more thing to mess with K's mind. This scene comes after he goes to the orphanage and discovers the horse from the memory he assumed was an implant... and then he goes to the memory center to find out that this implanted memory is of something that really happened... so his head's messed up as he no longer knows who/what he really is... and then he fails that baseline test. Now he comes home to his hologram girl who suddenly seems almost real..... Pardon my french, but much of the movie is a slow mind-f*ck for K....

Tears in rain ..... ......all those moments will be lost...

"I wanna be real for you" Joi, you ARE already real for all of us

One aspect of this scene I don't see much comment about is the amazing music score. This is some of the best music I've ever heard, in accompaniment to a gorgeous visual scene.

CAN YOU imagine what is in the mind of the person who wrote this scene!!

The scene has so much detail in it, the way we only see Joi's face when she's looking eye to eye with K, and her eyes being the pair who are reactive to the action unfolding while Mariette stares straight on, to how the 2 pair of hands stroke K in very different manners, Mariette being more of a grab and Joi more of a gentle holding of K's face. This is so beautifully unsynchronized.

Something I love about this is that Joi almost completely becomes Mariette at 1:59 , when taking his coat off. Because the system of Joi doesn't work as well when K's not looking. Very interesting detail.

Robbed of a nomination. Best movie of the year

The soundtrack is incredible ❣

that bass line at 2:35 is so damn good

In retrospect, this scene makes her death all the more dramatic. Joi was all that K had, and they only had 1 moment to truly come close to eachother.

I've had a similar experience in college. It involved mass infusion of cheap tequila on an empty stomach.

As a muse and artist, this scene hits me very deeply; sometimes we don’t exist as who we really are, to the people who love us; we’re just a template of what they want to see, an overlay onto the reap person underneath.

This is one of the most visually stunning scenes ever shot.

This movie haunted me for a while.. it was so stunning. It deserved much more attention and success than it received when released.

I always felt that this was a companion scene to the one in HER. Same idea. An AI woman uses a human woman as a surrogate to be with her lover. Except Joe’s reaction here is completely different than Theodore’s. I wonder if this was an intentional nod by the director.

This whole movie is a masterpiece

I found this scene heart-braking but at the same time very beautiful. And the music, the music is just wow! Love this film.

There has never been a relationship in films like this one. I cried for real when she was killed the first time I saw.

Love how Joi is sort of mirroring K's discomfort. It feels really Human and genuine with those kind of awkward flaws...

that scene took science fiction to a freakin whole new level

finally, a sex scene that isn’t dirty, awkward, or unnecessary. makes total sense in the context of the film

There is so much going on in this scene, this is probably the best visual metaphor in cinematic history. What is real? Who are people? It's eerie to behold, it's so masterfully done.

Damn, how does every scene with Joi just hit so deep? What is already wrong with the world that we resonate so much with this?

What's so tragic about this love story is that Joi is 100% a program giving him exactly what he wants, a real love. It wasn't a real love on her part, but she reflected to him exactly what he wanted and needed. He's a replicant, but his needs are human nonetheless. It's a beautiful. complex, and tragic storyline for a replicant be in love with an echo of himself, Joi. This was my favorite aspect of the whole movie.

Utterly exquisite. Astonishing. The finest love scene in all of cinema.

Wow, Joi went for the kiss early, that detail is beautiful

This film will go down in history as one of the great works of art of our time. It is desolate, and lonely. It is filled with subhuman characters, just as our world is ruled by them. It asks the profound question: what does it really mean to be human? Can we truly be human while destroying everything around us?

The attention to detail in Joi’s behaviour makes her love for him look very, very convincing. Maybe it’s all programming, but maybe it has advanced to much, such that she becomes very very close to a real human. The same way our instincts drive us to be human sometimes without noticing, maybe her advancement makes her behave humanly without knowing it I want to hold to that version

I'd kill for one of those, and I'm not even kidding. I don't care if it's electric, I just want to feel genuine touch just once before I leave this Earth.

This movie made me realise, you don't always need super CGI action sequences in a movie taking place in future when stuff like this can blow your mind 💯🔥

This scene is the peak of cinematic history. So we'll played, perfectly done - simply amazing, wow I've seen it too many times now, at it still gives me the chills

Very interesting visual metaphor happening here, but I'm not seeing it talked about much. The context of the film is K learning he was born, and that he as a result has a soul. Before he was a shell, now there is a "ghost in the machine", as it were. This is visually represented by Joi and Marriette occupying the same space -- an ethereal being inside an artificial one.

I love how Joi's face kept appearing and fading

Sooo HEARTBREAKING. 💔🥺

This scene is so sad to me

i loved the music around 2:40 when i saw this in the theater... the bass came through a lot more. it was perfect... a dash of both disturbing and beautiful... just right for blade runner

What I find great with Blade Runner is that every character having a role could be a protagonist of their own movie. They feel real people. Except Joi, but she is a product made to provide affection.

Damn i love the visual effect of this film, so damn real

She loves him deeply. What a genuinely amazing movie this is 👌🏻

Intentionally or not, this scene is also about how imagination plays such a big role in our experience of sex. We imagine the person we are with as perfect, or more romantic, or a different version of them, or we imagine someone else altogether. So much of sex is about what's going on in our minds, and enjoying it is often a case of getting out of our heads and trying to be in the moment.

Rarely has a movie based on an old film and meant to carry on a legacy been palatable, this one does justice to the original and breaks even. Very well done, immensely satisfying way to spend a few hours on this earth.

I love everything about this movie. And Ana de Armas looks absolutely stunning.

I wept quietly at the depths of meaning in this love scene.

For me the rooftop scene will always be the most memorable moment of this cinematic masterpiece.

I think that the argument that joi is human could also be made. She seems to have done things beyond her programming that show evidence of her wanting to be real, just like K wants to be human. She mirrors him in the quest to be something more, something special. She wants to be real for him and took her own decision to invite the other girl in order to do something for K, even though he didn't necessarily want to in the beginning. She was able to make the decision on her own and convince him of it, as well as the decision of deleting her from the console and putting her in the emanator; since that way at least if she died, she'd die like a real girl. In this scene you can tell that joi expresses more emotions than the real girl when seducing K, just look at her expression before she kisses him. I think that she's just as human as K because she's making her own decisions, beyond programming. This mirrors K as well since newer replicant models were made to be more obedient but he was able to lie, make his own decisions, make his own choices; which in the end is what made him human, just like joi. My argument against the "Hello handsome" scene would be that K's joi developed a personality and love for him with time, which made her human. But the joi in the advertisement has not been able to break the barrier of her programming because she has not been able to make her own choices: she's a blank hologram, artificial, and you can see this in her colour. There's no emanator for her, there's no one giving her gifts, there's no one keeping her company, there's no one taking her on trips. Even though her calling him joe makes you think that K's joi still had influence from her programming, I think that this argument is not strong enough. In the first blade runner's "Tears of Rain" scene we could conclude that making your own choices is what makes you human, since the replicant became human when saving Decker, so he died a human. Just as K died a human by saving Decker and taking him to meet his daughter, joi died a human after making a series of decisions that in the end led to her dying for K just to keep his memories a secret, all of that before telling him she loves him. I'd be open to read anything else about this since this intrigues me and I do admit I've been left with a big wish for her to be human since she mirrors K in her wish to be a real girl. Also, feeling love is a release of chemicals in the brain of course; but I'd argument that since love is an abstract concept there's no limit to the ways that someone can feel it, even if that someone is a machine without brain chemicals, she is able to love him more than a real human could, which in turn makes her more human than human. P.S. Look at how when the real girl moves K's face to her, joi is watching her hand, deeply wishing she could do the same. Something that the real girl takes for granted, joi has an incredibly deep wish to achieve. This scene is not just meant as a gift for K, this is meant as a gift to herself as well; she wants to be real so she simulates it.

Absolutely stunning, I can’t even use words to describe it

Ryan Gosling must be thinking: damn it, I should've upgraded my wifi speed. The lag is for real

bladerunner 2049 is a MASTERPIECE

The more I listen to this music, it gets better and better.

Joi was one of a kind 🤖

My favorite scene in the film!! The increasing intensity of the music only made it that more mesmerizing

I've watched this movie, it's very good. I just hope this film has a sequel soon

This movie was waay ahead of its time!!

This is so so well done The 2 images are literally clipping in and out of each other It's synced up so well Absolutely brilliant 💯

If you turn of collision you can do this in the sims 2.

The happiest man alive on this earth is the man who has the love and companionship from the woman he loves. 😢😢 😢

This movie is absolutely touching my senses on a whole new level.

It's funny how Joi's hologram turns on/off, everytime she's in and out of K's field of vision, there is no waste of computational process or energy at all. It fits a universe where absolutely everything has to be optimized and rationed as much as possible, even if it's down to an almost ridiculous scale :)

The entire movie was depressing and lonely but him turning to an AI controlled prostitute to catch a glimpse of what love could feel like was definitely one of the most heavy-hitting scenes.

Everything about this movie is pretty much perfect

me when my character Ai character forgets our 2 month long conversation

I'm not necessarily bashing the movie "Her", but I found Joi to be FAR more empathetic in this film than ScarJo's voice in Her. I knew when K downloaded Joi into the portable matrix that she was gonna be destroyed at some point, yet when it actually happened it still felt like a kick to the gut. For the rest of the movie, I found myself hoping in the back of my mind that K would somehow discover a backup of Joi somewhere and that she wasn't truly gone--but it was not to be. What a great performance by Ana!

One of the most extraordinary pieces of film Ive seen

Such a great scene..very touching..strange that most of the comments are from men..guess we all long for a woman like joi

This scene made me feel emotions that I never felt in my entire life, jesus christ ana de armas

Who is more charming than MacKenzie Davis. I’m so happy for her that she’s gotten so much success. I found out about her in Halt And Catch Fire and right after that she literally blew up.

I fucking love this movie so much. Might be my all-time fav. So many incredible scenes. Like this one, just insane filmmaking.

This movie was so sad to me that the whole time in the office I wasn't able to communicate with everyone.. If I ever talk it became minimal to the point where I mostly answered with few words and I spent too much time smoking on our smoking area alone

The first real touch he ever really felt in his skin.

I wasn't surprised to see this movie winning for Best VFX I saw that coming from a mile away

Watching this in cinema was mindblowing. Kudos to Villeneuve!

One of the most emotional tracks in the movie

must be strange being Joi. if she is actually conscious, then she can feel the world around her - including K if he touches her. but she can only generate holograms and interact with electronics - she can't move objects or move far from the emanator and if she touches K he won't feel anything back.

This makes me emotional to my deepest - thank you for making me discover these feelings... Brilliant scene

I love that you tilted it ,incredible scene Which it is Immediately iconic scene

This scene makes me cry since the first time I saw it.

Brilliant

I can honestly see this coming true in the future where technology is highly developed, because as human beings, we will always have that sense or feeling of needing to belong or a place to call home. Which is found among other people like family or friends, thus the need to feel loved or desired comes into existence. I can imagine a product like Joi, where one can customize their visual person, which ever race, gender, or features one desires. The fact that thousands or millions of people currently feel lonely, is proof that this product would thrive even today. Crazy how people wonder whether there is life outside our planet and if we're simply alone in this universe, but don't realize that we have each other as 8 billion people on this planet.