For a long time after watching "Don't Let Me Go", Tommy's desperate roar and Kathy's empty eyes still echoed in his mind.
This is the story of a group of clones. The overall tone of the film is dark, the tone is gloomy and depressing, making people seem to be in one wet and cold rainy day after another.
The confession of 28-year-old Kathy at the beginning of the film corresponds to the scene in which Tommy was lying on the operating table preparing to donate at the end. The doctor's skillful but emotionless technique and the complex eyes of the two allude to the cruel fact that the audience is cloned. No, or not worthy of having emotions.
The seemingly stylized and regular time in Hayerson was perhaps the happiest time for Tommy, good friends Kathy and Ruth, who were somewhat autistic. The mysterious "lady", the anticipated token auction, the coveted galleries...Hayerson has created a "little society" for the cloned children, they only know that stepping over the fence is dangerous and will break people , but did not know that they were destined to be incomplete from the moment they were born. No matter how soulful they create paintings, or how much they love each other, when all the "hard evidence" that they have souls are presented, they still can't escape their fate, just like the last sentence of the headmistress" We didn't have the gallery in order to look into your soul, we had the gallery to see if you had soul at all.", the truth that has long been the truth, was revealed at this moment, although mentally prepared, but It still seems to have been hit hard - it turned out that everything was destined.
But thinking about it from another angle, I want to think of it as HE. After all, two people who love each other, even if they only love for a short time, they have already loved each other. In the end, Tommy's eyes on the operating table seemed empty, but I believe his heart was full of warmth and firmness.
The film uses a lot of hints and symbols, such as the dolls with broken limbs in the token auction, the lesson plans scattered on the ground after the substitute teacher Lucy told the children the truth, and the bronze statues outside the building that were beaten by the heavy rain and seemed to be weeping... these The inanimate objects seem to be shouting, "help me", "don't let me go"... The lyrics of "Song of the Night" that the heroine has been listening to also keep shouting "never let me go", Echoing the title of the film, they also expressed their heartfelt words-don't let me go, whether it's you or the world.
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