It seems that the film is not very different from the original, and the timeline is roughly similar to the three paragraphs of the novel. Due to the length of the problem, a lot of details will naturally be lost. The most changed place is that the original work spent a huge amount of pen and ink in portraying the delicate emotional relationship between the three people (aside from the innocent and hazy love of Kathy and Tommy, and the most important thing is the friendship between the three), but the film has changed from From the beginning, in the warm-toned photography, I gradually adjusted the tones to cooler, and used the main energy to cultivate the atmosphere to let us see the inevitable tragedy. Some people say why this tragedy is doomed. Wouldn't the people who came out of Hailsham run? In fact, how the story is set up is Kazuo Ishiguro's own business, and it is understandable to run. It becomes a popular and fun escape from the clone island, and a simple escape cannot make the audience more aware of this error. From another perspective, it’s easier to understand the direction of the story. Although this is an English novel, Kazuo Ishiguro is essentially Japanese, and the story is also permeated with Japanese aesthetic accents. This dreamy sense of blur deepens the fate. Acceptance. Even if you run, where can you go? This is already the fate of Hailsham students, only crying, laughing, loving, and only letting oneself follow the fateful trajectory to the end.
Whether it is a novel or a movie, although there are disagreements on the hypothesis of science fiction, the attraction is that it uses the trap of tone atmosphere to bury us in the hypothesis of the story, and let us follow that. The three of them were imprisoned together in that beautiful school, and then little by little they found that everything they had had been eaten away by the world they had created. From soul to body, one by one was defiled, unable to resist, and unable to vent. It's like the ship that ran aground on the seashore, abandoned and rusted away little by little. Why can this pessimistic worldview touch us? All because we are also Hailsham students of another degree, all because of our original sin and vulnerability, all because we also have destiny.
I always feel that Kathy, who seems to be strong, is the most pitiful, because in the end she has to face the dismantling of the lie, the death of her friend, and regaining love after many years, but she has to face the death of her lover. As a carer, she has to experience all moments of loneliness, and she has to face her own destiny alone.
Fortunately, the movie also gave us a few beautiful moments, Mulligan's classical smile, and Garfield's shy face curled up with his mouth.
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