"Tears in Rain"

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time… to die…” 

Blade Runner, being a well-known sci-fi thriller movie, has shown different phases of science and technology and how each has shaped the society we live in. The 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott depicted what the ‘future’ would be like: mega-corporations around the world manufacturing genetically engineered organic robots, much like humans, but are distinguishably different in many ways. 

The film has successfully drowned me into the likes of becoming one of the people at that time or maybe even one of the ‘replicants.’ Sure enough, it would seem unfair for the part of the replicants to be created, but not to be destined to live for long the way they may wish to. Roy together with the otherNexus-6 models is a pitiful creature whose fate was pre-decided. But of course, he had the tendency to desire for more. And I liked how his desperation has been showed in the film through his actions which gave me goose bumps all the time.

I find the scene where Roy, literally removing Dr. Eldon Tyrell’s eye balls out, killed their creator, the genius behind the Tyrell Corporation, very thrilling that it was enough to deliver the message of how scary and dangerous the replicant really was. Blade Runner has just the right amount of suspense, drama, and science. 

Also, the soliloquy I quoted in the beginning had the last lines of Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty. It was a very powerful end which justifies his role in the movie. What made it more amazing was the fact that it was an impromptu monologue improvised by the actor. Though I also find Harrison Ford’s acting exemplary as the main protagonist of the story, I found his role as Rick Deckard rather ordinary, with all those skills always expected from the lead character. With that, Roy’s character was the most remarkable for me because it was an extraordinary side of what comes with improvements in science and technological innovations. 

Though these replicants may be products of science merely for corporate purposes and made to be terminated as well, they had the chance to be created to what they have become. Still, they had the opportunity to see what the world has to offer to them, even for a short while, and to go beyond worlds. That’s science.