A lightly sad, yet heart-wrenching movie

Breanna 2022-04-21 09:01:56

In this film, the colors of the picture are soft and warm, the rhythm of the film is slow, and the music is clean, but it tells a story about death. These children who grew up in Hayerson like an ivory tower, with innocent faces written on their faces, do not know the reality and cruelty of the outside world. Couples' pure nostalgia and yearning for life, looking forward to the dream of "deferred donation" because of true love, are shattered by the reality of "those who have cancer, who cares if you have souls?" So, all I can do is to helplessly shout and roar to the sky, and finally face the reality.

If a person's destiny is already doomed,
he does not have the right to choose to become a doctor, a teacher, or a supermarket cashier in the future, and
his existence is only for the lives of others,
then what is the meaning of life to himself?

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Never Let Me Go quotes

  • Kathy: It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.

  • [first lines]

    Kathy: My name is Kathy H. I'm 28 years old. I've been a carer for nine years. And I'm good at my job. My patients always do better than expected, and are hardly ever classified as agitated, even if they're about to make a donation. I'm not trying to boast, but I feel a great sense of pride in what we do. Carers and donors have achieved so much. That said, we aren't machines. In the end it wears you down. I suppose that's why I now spend most of my time not looking forwards, but looking back, to The Cottages and Hailsham, and what happened to us there. Me. Tommy. And Ruth.