The film begins with soothing reminiscences, and the schoolyard scene seems to be in any British film, with boys and girls playing in a manor-like school, and there is no shortage of stodgy headmasters and aggressive teachers alike. Soon, however, you discover that these children are different: They dare not take a step out of school, they are like prisoners living in the Garden of Eden, and they are trapped by the identity of the clone.
It also involves organ transplantation. The American-style sci-fi film "The Reborn Man" treats this subject more as a social topic, and organizes stories around the moral contradictions or social problems it causes. "Don't Let Me Go" is like a soothing and tactful, sad but not hurtful violin song, depicting the youth and love of three young people in the wonderful natural light and oil painting-like scenes.
Yes, this is a tragic and fateful story, because they were born whole, but they were destined to die incomplete. But the film is not complaining about the underprivileged. What is worth mourning is not the clones who provided body transplants for others, but the life dilemma they face with us: Gauguin's "Who are we? We are from Where did we come from? Where are we going?" The famous painting was also painted for them. It's just that the lives of the three boys and girls are shorter and the fate is more cruel, and the thinking of this kind of life is more urgent.
Because of this, the film does not highlight the immorality of this system. The children who are clones are educated to donate and take pride in their donation. They joke with each other, hoping that they will not "end" after the first donation. (interestingly, complete also means "complete"); they applied for a deferred donation, just hoping that the two people they love could stay together for a few more years; they didn't want to run away, didn't want to resist, just wanted to die in the right place... just like the end Kathy said as he was about to make his donation: "What I'm not sure about is, are our lives different from those of the recipients? Life is so short, and many people feel that they don't have enough."
We can even say that this is not a romance film, where love is just a proof that you are alive and have a soul. The famous film critic Roger Albert analyzed: "The Thomist philosophy holds that individuals with souls need to have free will and the ability to love. Donors meet these two."
When you see Tommy's animated large paintings Elephant, seeing that faint smile Tommy showed Kathy outside the window before he passed out on the operating table, even if they can't get married, have children, and work like ordinary people, who can say that their lives are incomplete? Reminds me of a science fiction novel written by my late friend Liu Wenyang. It is about a replicator who uses his limited half-an-hour life to love and give a girl happiness. The novel is called "The Shining Life", but it is not "The Shining Life". love". At the end of the novel, "Is a hundred years really long?" "Don't Let Me Go" tells us that forever is actually very short.
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