K opens the lock. Disappears inside. The only one to close his door, which is tagged with a graffitiI: “FUCK OFF SKINNER.” …

A sparsely adorned space in clear contrast to his neighbors. No pretense of cultural heritage. A simple chair. On its arm a valueless paperback novel, well-thumbed, noted, creased. Nabokov’s maddening “PALE FIRE” as it happens, not that we make a thing of it. He turns on a console. Perhaps a music player, which spins a Sinatra song, “Summer Winds.” …

K cooks in a corridor kitchen that looks like one we would find in a very old space station. He cooks with dexterity, trying to be light, as he makes a prefab meal. …

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve
– production design by Dennis Gassner