“I’ve…seen things you people wouldn’t believe”
— Roy Batty
I have remembered Roy’s final words since first watching Blade Runner. Its lines, short, unpretentious, evinced a rhythm almost musical in quality; the delivery, hushed, straddling the no-man’s land between smooth and practiced and uneven and halting, takes on a gravity when paired with Vangelis’ “Tears in the Rain.â€
Those moments, born of events that exist now only as ephemeral threads in our memories, they define us, mold us. They form a gulf over which we cannot touch – our worlds are different. And soon, all we see, all we are, is lost.
Perhaps that is all Roy wanted – someone to see the world he did, for whom its map was the same.
Someone who understood the totality of him.