The pictures of running on the long road always make me feel moved, because people don’t run for no reason, but they must break free from the shackles, give up the past, and devote themselves to the distance with longing and excitement, especially It's when someone is with you. So every time I look at this poster, I feel a surge of excitement and choke my nose.
But in this story, the end of the road is an icy ocean, and in fact, the run never happens - they just sit quietly by the promenade, Tommy looking at Kathy, Kathy looking out at the sea, and then Said: "We should go back."
I haven't read the original novel, and I only vaguely remembered where it was said that it was a work of science fiction before I read it, but out of habit, I even held back in any aspect of science fiction. I didn't pursue it, as usual, I entered the story like a blank piece of paper and watched it slowly color for me.
Bumper Crop, which generally refers to the great harvest of farmers, is vividly described as too much income and inexhaustible. At Hailsham, an English school, the term was used by the headmistress of a toy store. On this day, the van brought a box of toys, and the children were very excited, and couldn't wait to exchange the lottery coins they usually won with their excellent performances for their favorite toys. A child asked, "Is it really a bumper crop?" The expressive delivery worker said a casual yes.
The next shot is of all kinds of toys discarded by "real" children on the long table, and these children are still happy with the unprecedented variety of choices.
These children, who are obliged to sacrifice their lives for others, have no right to play with brand-new toys.
Only little Kathy remained unmoved, sitting alone outside the hall door. After a while, Tommy came over, thinking she hadn't picked out a favorite toy, comforted her, and gave her the tape she'd just exchanged for a lottery coin. The title of the film was also sung for the first time - "Darling, kiss me, hold me… and never let me go…"
This was something Tommy didn't even realize he wanted to say to Kathy, and it was something Kathy had always buried in her heart but never had the chance to say. In fact, it's what every Hailsham child wants to say to the world before surgery.
Ruth is different. In this small circle, she is the most obedient and active. She followed the trajectory of the system impartially, imitating the outside world tirelessly, but collapsed all her passions after seeing a mature woman who was more than her own. She categorically denied that it was her body. In fact, she was just looking for a way out for her life. She finally realized that no matter how hard she tried to imitate, she could never be her.
This is a limit. For us, the limit is individual freedom; for them, the limit is living four operations.
This limit brings about one of the most horrific and evocative scenes in the film. During the third operation, the sound of the instruments became more and more abnormal, the organs were put into containers, the doctors and nurses calmly turned off the lights and left the operating room, leaving behind Ruth's mutilated body and his unclosed eyes that were still on the ceiling. .
Ruth didn't stick to "fullness" because she already knew it was a lie and lost her only motivation. However, she has achieved another kind of perfection for herself. At the seaside, she confessed her ulterior motives to Tommy and Kathy, and told them about the place she had spent years getting her "probation". But in the face of reality, her perfection is only humble.
T and K arrive at the house shown at the address, and meet again more than a decade later with the headmistress and the gallery lady in charge of selecting their paintings. It turns out that the kind-hearted headmistress is just a puppet. She is proud of raising these children in the most humane way. To Tommy and Kathy, she is like a god who controls all things, but she also has to admit that art , just her answer to a question no one would ask. In this climax, Garfield gives the best performance in the entire film. Tommy's doubts, grief, despair, and Kathy's silent tears break the viewer's heart.
So, we understood the beginning and understood Tommy's mischievous expression on the operating table, Kathy's narration: "I never realized that our lives were so closely intertwined and stretched to the end in an instant. If I knew long ago that maybe I would hold them tight." With
only twenty-eight years of life, why has the emotion and cognition started to wear down? Why do you no longer look forward to the future, but keep looking back on the past?
Maybe it's because in this limited life, we already know the boundless vastness and unchangeable frustration.
Even the utopia of the other world will have its exhaustion one day; even those of us who are genuine have an alter ego that we long to reach. When you accept despair, you will no longer be disappointed, and you will have the courage to enjoy life and create value. That's one positive message I got in this suffocatingly tragic story.
Please don't say things like "the story itself is a bit old-fashioned" or "already know how it ends" when reviewing this film. Many movies are not puzzles, they just want to tell a good story and give people more comfort and insight. After all, the excitement brought by new things is instantaneous, and a good story can be told countless times before going to bed.
There's no need to compliment Carey Mulligan's performance, but this time, she's showing us how much information her eyes and slightly slanted mouth can convey. And Andrew Garfield, a British spiritual niche student who came into people's attention because of Boy A, also proved his strength indiscriminately in this film. In my impression, there are no golden boys and girls like them in the film industry. Of course, Kightly's performance is equally infectious.
Actually, I've never really liked Mark Romanek's music videos. But I really did not expect that, as a director who has been making music videos for a long time, his screen features could be so stable and timeless. It's just that this film has a very high standard in terms of soundtrack, photography, screenwriting, director, etc., but it will not make most people's eyes shine, and it will be a disadvantage in the awards.
The saddest thing is that in the end, they didn't run wild on the dock once, but spent their time in vain deceiving the god of fate.
If there are 28 years to come, please burn with confidence.
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