After the unexpected death of her boyfriend, the heroine chooses to clone her boyfriend, and then uses her womb to give birth to him and raise him with her own hands. The film obviously points to the ethical issues brought about by cloning technology, but watching the heroine stroking her bulging belly makes me feel quite romantic. Give birth to a lover yourself, you can see how he grows, you can protect him, you can teach him, you can love him from the first second of his life, even before he exists. If the radical desire of love is to transcend all things to eternity, there is nothing more transcendent than the act of giving birth to a closer, deeper connection, and nothing more transcendent than the act of giving birth. It seems that I suddenly understand why people want to have children. Childbirth is based on people's desire to overcome the limitations of the present world and spread life into the future. I was also surprised to find that the dominant power possessed by the womb was so powerful that it was almost cold.
If the lover is replaced by a relative, this question may be easier. In the film, there is a person who gave birth to his mother. "Change me to be your mother in the next life." Where have I seen someone make a wish like this? I think many people who love their mother deeply will have the same idea. If Aili had guilt, she would make such a choice even more. So I think the reason why the heroine is so persistent in reshaping her boyfriend's life is that love is naturally the key, but perhaps it is also because of a trace of guilt and unwillingness.
When she opened the matchbox containing the snail's body, she saw the note left by her boyfriend: I will wait for you no matter how long, I imagine that she secretly made an oath and contract with her boyfriend. This spiritual relationship is unbreakable, exclusive, and does not accept any intrusion.
I believe that if cloning technology is developed to the point where the cloned life forms do not pose any health risks, many people will choose to use it. For love, or for self-salvation.
It's just that there is a bug in it, although this bug also exists in normal reproductive relationships: the right to make reproductive decisions is in the hands of only one party, and the fetus can't express his opinion on whether or not he will be born. People do not selfishly decide to love selflessly.
Therefore, people who are born passively often have to deviate from the wishes of the reproductive person, even if it is a clone. Time is linear. Even if life is taken back from the god of death, everything will not be able to come back. What is born is a new life, facing an unknown future, and cannot be used as compensation for the past.
Back in the movie, clones are deeply discriminated against in society, and even if they are not discriminated against, they are not necessarily supported and understood. The male protagonist's biological mother was firmly opposed to cloning. Years later, her son who was "resurrected from the dead" was standing in front of her eyes. She was full of tears, but she always kept a distance, because she clearly knew that her son's life was only once, and she respected the relationship between life and death. The natural process of death.
I give 3.5 stars to the movie itself, the lonely seaside cottage at the end of the world, and Eva's deep and restrained green eyes, all of them are beautiful, and the other 0.5 stars to our shared secret wish.
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