Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth grew up in Hailsham together. Kathy and Tommy adored each other since childhood, but Ruth took Tommy away from Kathy. The three grown up were forced to go their separate ways due to the "need" of organ removal. When Ruth had two organ removals, he met Kathy, who was taking care of post-surgery Dai Pei people. The two found Tommy, who had also undergone two organ removals. The three friends who grew up together met again, but they were different . A guilt-ridden Ruth gives Kathy an address to the gallery wife who used to collect the children's paintings in Hailsham. It is said that two people who really love each other after her review and approval can get a delay of several years for organ removal. When Tommy took his paintings and Kathy to find the gallery wife, Ruth had been removed in the operating room the source of her life - heart. Her innocent eyes stared blankly into the distance, as if searching for an answer.
But the gallery wife didn't give Kathy and Tommy the answers they wanted, and the delay was just a rumor. On the way back, Tommy cried out in pain and despair in the wilderness, hugging Kathy and crying. When Tommy was pushed into the operating room for the last time, Kathy looked across the window from him. Tommy gave Kathy one last smile, his eyes full of love and helplessness, and finally lost in the anesthetic. Next to him, the "people" were indifferently disinfecting Tommy's skin, making preparations for the operation.
Humans are greedy and never satisfied. The counterintuitive illusion of greed has become a double-edged sword, allowing people to learn, study, create, and invent in a never-ending way. From penicillin, to pacemakers, to cell clones, people crave every minute they can breathe air, and every possibility. Even, living is no longer the ultimate goal, it is best to die without a disease, and it is best to live forever. Driven by this insatiable greed of human nature, the bottom line of morality has no room and possibility to descend. When murder is legitimized in a high-sounding manner, when a dirty and aging heart can beat again based on plundering the life of another fresh and healthy person, when humanity has been wiped out and morality has been lost, is it still a good wish to live? ? ! Or, is there any point in being alive? !
The most shocking dialogue in the film:
Tommy brought a painting about Hailsham to the gallery's wife's house and the dialogue with the headmaster of Hailsham:
Tommy: We are in love, it's true love, and is verifiable. To use our art from Hailsham, to look into our souls, which would verify that we deserved a deferral.
Tommy: We're in love, it's true love, and it will stand the test. We want to use our work at Hailsham to examine our souls to prove that we are worthy of deferred donation (deferred organ donation). (Subtext: We also have love, we also have souls, our souls are also beautiful, we are no different from you, we should get the same rights as you, even for a few years?!)
Miss Emily (Principal of Hailsham): Hailsham was the last place to consider the ethics of donation. We used your art to show what you were capable of. To show that donor children are all but human. But we were providing an answer to a question no one was asking. If you ask people to return to darkness, the days of lung cancer, breast cancer, motor neuron disease, they will simply say no. … We didn't have the gallery in order to look into your souls. We had the gallery to see if you had souls at all.
Miss Emily:
Hailsham was the last person to consider the ethics of organ replacement place (subtext, no one cares about this now). We ask you to show your abilities through your works to prove that the children of organ replacements are also human. But we answered questions that no one asked at all. If people were asked to go back to the dark (blind people), to the days when they were tortured by all kinds of terrible diseases (lung cancer, breast cancer, motor neuron disease), they would simply refuse! . . . The gallery is not established to examine your souls, but to see if you have souls.
At the end of the film, Kathy asks the following questions:
Kathy: But I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
Kathy: What I'm not sure about is whether our lives and the recipients' lives are very different. Life comes to an end, and maybe no one really understands what happened to them, or feels like they've lived long enough.
Alive, or murder? ! Alive, or Humanity, Ethics? ! Are the walking dead who have lost their ethics of humanity "human"
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How long is life long? ! How far is forever? A meaningless life is a waste no matter how long it is, and even if it is only one day with someone you love, it will last forever!
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