Once somebody dies, all of their memories seem to evaporate… like “tears in the rain”. This single quote has become perhaps the most fascinating final line of a villain in film history. 

The film Blade Runner was created in 1982 but took place in 2019. The world created in Blade Runner is nothing similar to the 2019 we experienced. 

In 1982 people believed that we would possess flying cars, floating buildings, and robots that did manual labor for the human race on exoplanets. These robots are called Replicants and cause the driving conflict in this film. 

The quandary is that these robots are made to look human. They are created to be as human as possible because the more human they are, the easier they are to control. These robots are essentially slaves to the human race. 

They eventually grow sick of being slaves, so they rebel. The humans beat the Replicants in a revolution and thus begin when humans must exterminate the still remaining rebels.

The film follows a police officer named Dekker as he goes on to eliminate each and every remaining Replicant on the list of Replicants who went rogue. 

As Dekker endeavors on his journey, he begins to realize that these Replicants aren’t the enemy. Dekker even falls in love with one of the Replicants he is meant to eliminate. 

The main character, officer Dekker, is tasked with hunting down the Replicants that have gone rogue. 

Dekker is conflicted. Rather than helping the Replicants, he would much rather eliminate the remaining Replicants, excluding the one he has fallen in love with, so he can quit this job. He murders each Replicant until he clashes with the strongest Replicant of them all atop a skyscraper. 

The film ends with Dekker losing the battle, holding onto the edge of a balcony with the Replicant looking over him. 

As Dekker begins to slip he looks up to the Replicant in defeat and realizes that he can no longer hold on. Dekker proceeds to slip, but to the audience’s surprise, the Replicant grabs onto Dekker, lifting him to safety. 

At that moment, the audience now realizes that these Replicants are more human than the humans truly are. The Replicant who had just saved Dekker values and understands the importance of life more than Dekker does.

The Replicant then proceeds to die from the wounds he has taken and Dekker flees the scene. As the Replicant dies he provides a monologue that is one of the most memorable in film history. 

The film Blade Runner is a unique take on a dystopian future in which the human race has become the evil in the world, not the machines we have created.