#Tears in rain monologue movie#

He jumps across to Deckard with ease and watches his hunter struggle to hold on. 'Then, as Deckard dangles from the steel beam of a rooftop after missing his jump across the chasm, Roy appears holding a white dove. She comments on seeing Batty, with a nail through the palm of his hand, addressing Deckard, who is hanging from one of the beams:

#Tears in rain monologue movie#

The white dove that implausibly flies up from Roy at the moment of his death perhaps stretches belief with its symbolism but for me at least the movie has earned that moment, suggesting that in the replicant, as in the replicated technology of film itself, there remains a place for something human.' Īfter Hauer's death in July 2019, Leah Schade of the Lexington Theological Seminary wrote in Patheos of Batty as a Christ figure. If Deckard cannot see himself in the other, Roy can. Roy's life closes with an act of pity, one that raises him morally over the commercial institutions that would kill him. If the film suggests a connection here that Deckard himself might still at this point deny, at the very end doubt falls away. As they do so, the similarities between them grow stronger – both are hunter and hunted, both are in pain, both struggle with a hurt, claw-like hand. The Guardian writer Michael Newton noted that 'in one of the film's most brilliant sequences, Roy and Deckard pursue each other through a murky apartment, playing a vicious child's game of hide and seek. Dick at the Movies, praised the delivery of the speech: 'Hauer's deft performance is heartbreaking in its gentle evocation of the memories, experiences, and passions that have driven Batty's short life'. Jason Vest, writing in Future Imperfect: Philip K. Sidney Perkowitz, writing in Hollywood Science, praised the speech: 'If there's a great speech in science fiction cinema, it's Batty's final words.' He says that it 'underlines the replicant's humanlike characteristics mixed with its artificial capabilities'.

the replicant in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of'. In an interview with Dan Jolin, Hauer said that these final lines showed that Batty wanted to 'make his mark on existence. Hauer described this as 'opera talk' and 'hi-tech speech' with no bearing on the rest of the film, so he 'put a knife in it' the night before filming, without Scott's knowledge. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium… I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I’ve seen things… seen things you little people wouldn’t believe.