10 Best "Everything You Know Is A Lie" Moments In Movies

Perhaps the single best thing about Blade Runner 2049 is how aggressively it rejects the cliched "Chosen One" narrative that's so common in blockbuster cinema these days.

For much of the film, replicant protagonist K (Ryan Gosling) is led to believe that he is the miraculous child of replicant Rachael (Sean Young) and human Deckard (Harrison Ford).

But later in the story, K is picked up by the replicant resistance movement, whose leader Freysa (Hiam Abbass) reveals that Rachael and Deckard's child was in fact a girl.

The daughter turns out to be Dr. Ana Stelline (Carla Juri), a replicant memory designer briefly introduced earlier in the story.

For K, who truly felt he was a special and significant being, it's a crushing revelation that entirely changes how he views himself and the world around him.

But on a storytelling level it's a refreshing subversion of a played-out narrative trope, while ultimately allowing K to make a difference regardless by helping reunite Deckard with his child in his dying act.