If they don't go, then you can't go

Priscilla 2022-03-23 09:01:48

When I saw the children going out in the car to find Ruth's real body, I felt strange. These handsome boys and beautiful girls knew that they were cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, so why didn't they try to escape? Even animals resist when they are locked up, why don't these conscious 'people' fight for themselves?

Regarding the fact that they did not escape and did not resist, it is estimated that most people would find it inexplicable after reading it, and the author made a mystery. The simplest explanation for this problem is the person who made up the story. Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese-British man, although he grew up in a society that respects personal values ​​like the United Kingdom, he is still a guy who wields a samurai sword and gnashed his teeth in allegiance to the emperor. He has a sense of sacrificing himself to please the society. An almost morbid pursuit. Therefore, the gang of young and young men and girls in his writings, although they knew that they were cloned second-class citizens, were born into the second-class square of two, and were destined to be slaughtered, they also readily accepted this so-called, like Char Siew-like fate. So I voluntarily tied a plastic bracelet, faithfully fulfilled the responsibility that the society entrusted to them to be slowly killed, took off the things on my body one by one with a smile, here is my kidney, Take it and use it. You're welcome. Oh, if you want my lungs, then you take my heart too. This heart has been beating for you for more than twenty years, my distinguished wives.

The clones have been enslaved from the moment they started to survive. In the past, when we said slaves, we meant a group of people who did not receive any pay for their labor and were deprived of their freedom. And the title of Never Let Me Go, it is said that these children have everything, the only thing they are taken away is time. They were carefully kept in captivity until the day they were fat and strong. When they're cut like a piece of meat and then stored for the next time they're on the chopping board, you'll find that all the time they've had is living for others. All of their past is probably just the process of making a piece of raw meat into barbecued pork. And those innocence, happiness, and love are nothing more than unpalatable condiments for those who accept donations. The paintings they drew when they were young were probably the stamps of high-quality raw meat. No matter how awesome it is, it will eventually become barbecued pork. And by the time they realize it, they don't have time to change. The young couple in the film holds their paintings to apply for a lenient judgment on love, hoping to use the love most admired by noble people to give themselves a few years of good life. The result only proves that clones also exist. Emotionally, these children are also afraid of death. For their breeders, this incident may just see the pigs to be slaughtered in tears. Although there may be a few vulnerable audience members who feel pity, it will not change the reality that the pigs are going to be on the chopping board.

Director Romanek said that most people are content with the dullness of life, and few people will take very positive actions to change things that are helpless. Countless people have spent their whole lives doing a job they don't like, then go home and sleep next to someone they no longer love, and even get beaten. They all feel very inexplicable, but most of them just go on like this. The story of defying fate, fighting against the strong, and finally winning in Hollywood blockbusters is probably as mysterious as a fairy tale. If you are depressed and vomited after watching this film, you can take a look at The Island. It is the Hollywood version of the clone story. The handsome clone protagonists defeated the evil doctors, won their freedom, and finally kissed their mouths and gave birth to children.

But for slavery, resistance is useless. If you resist, if you win, the roles will be reversed, and you will enslave your slave master. But the system has not changed, and you will be defeated again one day. The only way is to abolish slavery and eradicate the roots. And when the environment we are in cannot give up those rules and regulations, and even most people rely on for survival, then running away may be a more active way to abolish these rules.

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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.

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    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.