After realizing it, I think this movie is really genius

Marge 2022-03-25 09:01:08

The date with Alkisti really didn't go well, and then it started to rain. I just called out to the Irish to watch Never Let Me Go.

I actually watched and fell asleep, which surprised the Irish because they both cried, like so many others in the cinema. When the lights came on, only the sound of nose blowing could be heard, and everyone was suppressed to death.

While waiting for Louise to touch up my makeup, I chatted with Francesca about the movie. She deduced from me falling asleep halfway through that I definitely didn't like the movie. After chatting and chatting, I realized that this is the story of clones! It's like being hit in the head! It must be that I didn't understand the first few subtitles of the film that UGC also translated into French when it was introduced! Everything is explained, the parts that I find puzzled!

Omg! The Irish people finally helped me, a film student, to find the steps: it was the language problem that made me miss the fact that they were clones that were exposed earlier in the film. It may be so. Moreover, I think I was deceived probably because the big background of the story happened in the past, rather than in the future, like a normal clone story. This is an incredibly clever story setting for me! After I came back to check the information, I found out that this was a novel adapted from a Japanese novelist. ——In short, after realizing it, I think this film is really genius, all the elements that make me feel awkward have become well-intentioned, and even supernatural! I said casually, if I were the director, I probably would have brought out the burden of clones at the end, and then everyone would have the feeling that I suddenly realized. Francesca said this: this is what you want.

After I listened to it, I immediately discovered my own problem: I always wanted to shake my baggage and play tricks, but I didn't put my effort into carving out feelings. This film shakes out the burden early, and carefully sculpts the feelings, which also makes the audience cry. This is real work. Also, if this movie were made like I said, most of the audience would probably fall asleep halfway through like me!

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Extended Reading

Never Let Me Go quotes

  • [last lines]

    Kathy: It's been two weeks since I lost him. I've been given my notice now. My first donation is in a month's time. I come here and imagine that this is the spot where everything I've lost since my childhood has washed out. I tell myself, if that were true, and I waited long enough, then a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy. He'd wave and maybe call. I don't let the fantasy go beyond that. I can't let it. I remind myself I was lucky to have had any time with him at all. What 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.

  • Miss Lucy: The problem is you've been told and not told. That's what I've seen while I've been here. You've been told but none of you really understand. So I've decided I'll talk to you in a way that you will understand. Do you know what happens to children when they grow up? No, you don't, because nobody knows. They might grow up to become actors, move to America. Or they might work in supermarkets. Or teach in schools. They might become sportsmen or bus conductors or racing car drivers. They might do almost anything. But with you we do know. None of you will go to America. None of you will work in supermarkets. None of you will do anything except live the life that has already been set out for you. You will become adults, but only briefly. Before you are old, before you are even middle-aged, you will start to donate your vital organs. That's what you were created to do. And sometime around your third or fourth donation, your short life will be complete.

    [turns away]

    Miss Lucy: You have to know who you are, and what you are. It's the only way to lead decent lives.