That's enough, that's enough. I want go home.

Even after found the secret room in his base, Sam still cannot face the reality that he is a clone. The memory of his family was his faith and support during the pervious three years. He cannot believe he is a clone and all these are just memory from the original Sam. He has to call home to conform what he found. What him found is devastating to him. After called back home, him found his wife in his memory actually died fifteen years ago, and there is a Sam with his daughter Eva. This becomes the last straw breaks the camel's back. He falls apart immediately and said "That's enough, that's enough. I want go home." But where is his home?  At this point, his face becomes pale under the sun light. The soft slow music becomes louder and mixed with his sobbing. The camera shifts out of the rover, moving from the sun to the earth. In his eyes, I guess the blue earth looks just familiar and strange. It is familiar in his dream during the last three years. However, when his dream breaks, it is no longer the home he thought.  Every hope on that planet is lost. 

This is the most touching moment to me in this movie. I saw the faith of sam is fallen apart, and he lost his courage to live. I guess that's the reason he give up his chance back to earth. At his last moment, he opened his eye, and witnessed the spaceship depart from the moon, with the other Sam in it. Eventually, people on earth knows what happened, and the cycle of cloning on earth could be stopped. I guess this is probably the best ending that can comfort him. 

The baby didn't end the chaos.

When I see this scene, I was shocked as if I was one of the people or soldiers. The war stops immediately when everyone heard the crying from the baby. People start gather to the baby, reaching out their hand to touch her. Soldier of both side cease their fire and make their way for the baby. Two soldiers even kneel down and make the sign of the cross.  It is like a tiny spark, which ignites and then spreads the hope of human species. At the end of this scene, someone fired a bazooka from the building and break the peace. 

I'm not sure about this. But I always have an illusion that I am a third person in the film with Theo and Kee, especially in the pervious scene, when Theo walks in the building and searching for Kee and her baby right before this scene starts. I guess it is because they didn't change the camera and used it follow Theo for too long. Anyway, when this scene starts my illusion is still there.  This illusion keeps me highly alert.  The crying from baby, the religious background music and the gun fire are mixed together and becomes a symphony. My alert is gradually removed with the background music and the baby crying. However, it is also raised with the gun shots occasionally. My alert reaches the peak when the bazooka is fired. 

This scene seems very real to me. I say it real not because of the hope from the baby, but the humanity from the refugees and soldiers. It puts both the promising and despaired future of entire human being on the balance of war. Eventually, the humanity is awaken, thus people gather to the baby and soldiers cease their fire and make way for Theo and Kee. However, this shiny humanity does not last very long. Even everyone has witnessed the baby, someone still fired the bazooka and eliminate the temperate peace. The scene could just end with Theo and Kee left safely. However, instead of ending with peace, the war restarts with the bazooka. And even at the end of the movie, there are still flights bombing the city, which indicates that the war is still going on even people knows there is a baby, a hope for all human beings. I guess the meaning of this bazooka and the bombing flights are very symbolic. Even we have the hope, which brings up our humanity from the bottom of our mind and lead us to the temperature peace, we are still going to fall back to chaos. It is sin engraved in our nature.

Semi-human situation

David is a robot kid adopted by Monica, a psychologically replacement of her son Martin. When Martian come back to this family, everything changes. There are some delicate interesting scenes in this movie, which indicate the strange relationship between robots and human beings. 

During the dinner, David is trying to get more participation with his family. He is learning the dinner behaviors from his parents, just like a baby repeating the behavior from his parents according to his human instinct. However, because of his robot instinct, David can neither experience the taste of food, nor understand what his parents are doing. He can only watch his parents eating and wonder about this puzzling human behavior. Because his existence, the atmosphere becomes creepy and embarrassing. 

When I see the kids test David's response of pain, it remains me the way that we treat guinea pigs in labs. But in this scene, David's 'defense system' was trigger by the pain unfortunately. He instantly looks for help from Martin. His defense instinct almost lead Martin to drowning.  In the end, Martin is saved, but David is left helplessly on the bottom of the pool.

Unlike the replicants, such as Deckard in Blade Runner, David does not have the all the human instincts. He is in a "semi-human" situation, contributed from his half human instincts and half robot instincts. This is the very source of the problem, which differentiates him from his "family". To me, this is an earlier problem during the artificial intelligence development progress comparing with the "living rights" in Blade Runner. To solve the problem in Blade Runner, the replicants need a revolution. However, in A.I., the problem can be solved through technology by updating the program and adding a fake digestion system et cetera to achieve better participation and coherence in human behaviors. 

Ironically, at the end of this movie, David is not recovered in a human society but in a robot society in order to emphasize the topic about LOVE. I was emotional to see the happy ending for David. However, rationally speaking, it is easier and more moral to reprogram David, so that he can be freed from his love and become a free robot. I mean, he is a robot in a robot society anyway. Thus, when I recall my memory of this movie, I always have the illusion that David is later recovered by human archaeologists in the future and eventually achieve his eternal love. What a bummer!

Tears in the rain

I guess it is the moment when Deckard see the paper unicorn from his dream and realize he is a supervised replicant. Although he 'retired' lots of replicants without and any mistake, and saved by his antagonist Roy, he cannot save Rachael and himself. This is an inescapable fate when a replicant realize who he is. 

All those moments will be lost in time...like tears in the rain.

I tried to think a little deeper about this monologue from Roy. This is not only Roy's last word, but also a message to Deckard.  It seems everyone around Deckard knows that he is a replicant.  Rachael knows it because she asked the questions whether Deckard had the test for himself. Leon knows it and he said 'more than you' when Deckard told him he's 4 year old. It's pathetic for Deckard to be the last one to know this and not even have a chance to struggle. He is just a instrument to 'retire' replicants. As a replicant, he is also have to be 'retired'. It's just a matter of time. His destiny is the same as the rest of the replicants. For replicants, his suffering is just another tear in the rain. It's hardly to be seen, and trivial to replicants. 

Although Blade Runner is a science fiction, the philosophical problems are always in us. To me, this movie is another Holocaust in future. The only thing that the replicants are struggle is to survive. There is nothing wrong because this is a nature of all living being. Replicants in this movie sometimes are more human than human. In this movie, they are capable to reason, to work and even to love. In history, the colonization, the racial segregation and the Holocaust are basically the same. We isolate people just because they appear to be different, even they are intellectually and emotionally same as us. This is just a sin in us. I assume this is the reason why all replicants in this movie are kind of handsome and charming and humans are just ordinary. 

A other question brought up to me in this movie is the humanity. When human beings are able to create artificial intelligence, the artificial intelligence could be made based on the best parts from us, no matter physically or mentally. They are capable to be even better than the best human being. If so, is that moral to decide the destiny of a being, who is even more moral than us? For example, Deckard is a responsible cop in this movie. Is that moral to manipulate him and make a good use of his loyalty? I'm sure most people won't manipulate and take advantage of the loyalty of their dogs. It's ridiculous to do that just because we are so arrogant and consider ourselves the only creature with intelligence and humanity and take advantage to others. This is another sin in us.