Casey finally said a paragraph to Tommy, to the effect that we donate organs to those people to extend the lives of others, but people are mortal, in fact, we are no different from them. I almost cried when I saw this. She means that I have experienced friendship, love, skin-to-skin, care, jealousy, hope, and disappointment in my life. In fact, it is no different from others. Ruth died when she chose to donate for the third time. Same reason. Died of youth.
When I watched the movie, I was thinking that if I realized that I had such a fate, I might not want to live at all, but after seeing what Casey said later, it made perfect sense. All in all, life is not about the length, not the ending ( The ending is the same for everyone) but a process, an experience every minute and every second. Many works of art express this theme: been here, loved, lived.
The lighting and shots throughout the film are beautiful, but as an outsider, the audience can't escape the sense of despair and cruelty. When a few classmates talked about the "legend" outside the fence (in fact, it was a brainwashing story made up by the school), they said it very seriously, and it could be seen that they really believed it. When boys and girls are looking forward to collecting the tokens they have saved, they are excited to buy some garbage from the outside world, and they are very excited as their own gifts. When they reluctantly accept their own destiny, they pin their hopes on the postponement of donation ( How beautiful life is, I want to slow down a bit ~~), I feel sincerely sad.
The saddest thing in the world is to see innocence exploited and controlled by the agendas set by other people in high places, from the body to the mind. In fact, such stories have happened in all communist countries, the innocence being exploited, the human nature being deliberately distorted, each such story is heartbreaking.
I can't see the possibility of them fighting, because they don't have the genes to fight, all they have is absolute obedience, the metal ring in their hands, the world is big, and all they have is their classmates. They can choose to die, and in the end all they have is a few books and some poor old toys. Humans come into school to deliver food, and they bring food to the farmhouse, cold and emotional, like feeding pigs and sheep. But they are living beings, with not only souls, but even souls with noble moral sentiments. What's particularly realistic is that clones are very keen to find their own mother, which is also a very important part of human nature - where do I come from, where are my roots, why am I who I am today? How much great art was born from this.
Blade Runner is not simple sci-fi, nor is Never let me go. What is ethics? It is nothing more than a set of family affection, blood ties, and thinking about the impermanence of life that we are accustomed to. When we have more control over our lives, established ethics are challenged - people don't know what to do with themselves. What's so scary about that? At the beginning, people didn't know how to deal with themselves, but slowly for thousands of years, they formed ethics and morality, and used these to define human nature.
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