What is the best science fiction film ever made? Time’s up, I need an answer. If you answered Blade Runner, you are correct. A visual masterpiece that still looks as gorgeous today as it did twenty-five years ago, Ridley Scott’s dystopian noir classic about a 2019 Los Angeles cop assigned to eliminate rogue androids called replicants is as powerful as any movie I’ve seen. It deals with basic questions that have perplexed humanity for centuries: How long do we have? How do we get more time? Life, in all its fleeting preciousness, is often taken for granted. Blade Runner shows us long life is not a guarantee, and despite all our technological genius, the one thing we can’t manufacture is more time.

In the following scene, Deckard breaks the bad news to Rachel that she is a replicant. The painful realization that her existence is nothing more than a series of borrowed memories is both frightening and poignant. I give you a stirring scene from the remarkable Blade Runner: