Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go

Carmela 2022-04-22 07:01:18

For me, this kind of small and fresh British literary film should have almost reached the level of 3 stars. The linear story is simple and illusion-like clarification, and the gentleness is stretched. However, Tommy's heart-piercing performance in front of the final road lights and Kathy's embrace made people dazed and condensed repeatedly, and still gave a 4-star evaluation.
This is probably the so-called sweet and warm betrayal that women show in details. I am always fascinated by the tragic element of this sense of fate. It is not about birth, old age, sickness and death, but not being able to ask for it. It means that there are individuals who can become more worthy of existence, but what life is like is no more incredible than its existence. Therefore, the existence of the art gallery in the film is only a question of proof, and ambiguous ethics cannot solve the long-term unhealing. rootlessness. . . . Fortunately, my intellectual ability in the Neolithic Age is probably unaware of such complex and delicate tool structures. . . .
Also, the ending of this film is also literary enough, I want to go to a thousand miles of smoke, and the twilight is deep. Romanticism, in Heine's words, is the flower of passion sprouting from the blood of Christianity, the awakening of sleepwalking medieval poetry, the spire of a dream, watching with the pathetic gaze of a grinning ghost following you.
Finally, don't have the idea of ​​seeing death as home, or you will really return. . .

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  • Llewellyn 2022-03-29 09:01:02

    Originally, I thought this setting was too ridiculous - humans can't be so cruel. It is better to donate all at once (with a little co-ordination of a person's organs, it is easy to use them all at once). However, thinking about it from another angle, aren't we all "donors" of the privileged class... The donation of a single organ in the film is very similar to our life. Pollution, overwork, poverty, anxiety, organ donation has become such an obscure form.

Never Let Me Go quotes

  • Ruth: You hear things, don't you.

    Kathy: What kind of things?

    Ruth: Well, you know... Maybe after the fourth donation, when you've technically 'completed', you're still conscious in a way. And then you find out that there's more donations, plenty of them. Just no more recovery centers, no more carers. Just watching and waiting... till they switch you off... I don't think I fancy that.

  • Tommy: I don't suppose you both heard that Hailsham was closed? The only schools left now, you hear they're like battery farms... I'm sure that's an exaggeration, though.