poor creature

Dusty 2022-04-23 07:01:54

poor creature——from Mrs.

poor
adj

. No birth, no life of one's own, created and alive, just to continue the lives of others, one's own value lies only in a body that can be demanded again and again.

creature
n. People, creatures, animals

Needless to say, the whole film is filled with such a creepy atmosphere, they are never ordinary "human beings", those broken toys, outdated cassettes, only in The social activities that take place in the classroom, and when Rose ends up being abandoned on the operating table, the feeling is all the more intense.

It's not that they don't deserve to be loved, cared for, and respected, but that all those who know the inside story have set a warning line for themselves in their hearts - they are not human. It seems that once they show their feelings, they admit that they are also human beings, just like themselves, with feelings, personality, and soul life, then they should have the same right to live as themselves, then what they are doing now is What?


When I watched their last ray of hope being deprived, I thought intensely, why didn't you choose to end this life by yourself, but just endure it silently? Running away, resisting, committing suicide, didn't the director ever think about the possibility of these plot developments?

Is it some kind of "responsibility" and "mission", or, just accepting it and living according to the established script is itself a kind of "proof" and "resistance"?

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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.