In the movie Blade Runner, the dying replicant Roy Batty introspectively makes the speech during a rain downpour, moments before his own death:
I’ve… seen things you people wouldn’t believe… [contemptuous laugh] 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 [small cough] tears… in… rain. Time… to die…
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CREDITS:
The Soliloquy ~ “Tears in rain” ~ Wikipedia
The Movie ~ Blade Runner ~ Wikipedia ~ IMDB
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NOTES:
Excerpts from the Wikipedia page:
Joanne Taylor, in an article discussing film noir and its epistemology, remarks on the relation between Wagner’s opera and Batty’s reference, and suggests that Batty aligns himself with Wagner’s Tannhauser, a character who has fallen from grace with men and with God. Both, she claims, are characters whose fate is beyond their own control.