As a movie, the picture is indeed beautiful, with luxurious actors and exquisite costumes dazzling.
As a movie, it also has a soul. Otherwise it will become a luxurious rotten movie.
But I endured watching it for a long time and didn't see the significance of this film.
Ishiguro Kazuo is a Japanese who writes in English.
He won the Booker Prize for another work, but I have to say that maybe only Japanese people can write this kind of work that looks gorgeous but actually has no soul.
Read the chrysanthemum and sword written by Ruth Benedict.
Ruth Benedict pointed out that Japanese culture is inherently inadequate. Everything is second-hand. The Chinese culture that used to be second-hand is now the second-hand Western culture. And unfortunately, second-hand ones are usually not as good as original ones. As a result, the entire Japanese culture is like a puppet without spirit. There are many cultural phenomena that are very puzzling.
I think Kazuo Ishiguro's work is a living example to verify Ruth Benedict's argument.
It is undeniable that Kazuo Ishiguro's works are quite talented, otherwise he would not be able to write such delicate works.
The protagonist in Never let me go is a clone who lives as an organ donor.
In the film, they have no resistance to their own situation, and their only effort is to apply for a non-existent death postponement.
If Ishiguro Kazuo wants to express that they are also human and dignified, why don't they have the courage to resist this system?
This kind of thing may happen in Japan. Perhaps, according to the Bushido philosophy of Japanese culture, dying so faithfully is as tragic and beautiful as cherry blossoms.
People wonder if it is possible in a British society like the birth of the Industrial Revolution, World War II, and the 1960s.
Is it really possible to lock up a bunch of British teenagers in a school, and they will be afraid to step beyond the fence? Then they were transferred to a relatively free life outside. Is it really possible to press them on the operating table and cut them piece by piece?
Will they really accept such an arrangement so peacefully?
I express my serious doubts, let alone that even in a totalitarian/powerful country like North Korea, some people go to the consulate and flee.
Why did they not resist at all in such a relatively relaxed society?
We can only say that this may be just a wishful thinking by Kazuo Ishiguro, perhaps Kazuo Ishiguro wants to express a kind of repressed pathological beauty through such a distorted assumption. Although I have to say it is very delicate and artistic.
Unfortunately, such an anti-human and anti-human hypothesis is really meaningless.
Finally, I have to point out that there is an obvious technical loophole, that is, the author assumes that they can donate organs only when they are grown up, but the actual situation is that many sick children also need organs. Why not start donating when they are young? ? It seems that the author has fallen in love for his protagonist without regard to reality. Or does he not have the heart to let children donate organs?
The meaningless beauty without a soul feels very shallow.
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