2. "Time to die." - Blade Runner
The full quote of course is a little more poetic...
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
In the 1982 sci-fi-noir film Blade Runner, Ridley Scott creates a rainy and sad world in which Blade Runner Deckard and replicant Roy Batty live. In this treatise on life and existence, Scott captures the frailty and impermanence of life through all of its characters. The replicants are created with a mere 4-year lifespan (unless you listen to the voice-over narration that accompanies the theatrical cut, but I'd recommend against it). The inventor Sebastian similarly suffers from the Methuselah syndrome, which too will decimate his life expectancy. But perhaps no character in movie history more perfectly captures the existential crisis of man in fewer words than Roy Batty. On a rooftop with a beaten Deckard, Roy's life is winding down. As he dies, he laments to Deckard about the things he's seen; when he's gone, those memories too will be gone forever. Does the fact that he's a replicant give his existence less worth? Does having seen such incredible spectacles give it more worth? Will we see a sequel to Hobo with a Shotgun? These are the kinds of questions people get doctorates in philosophy for.