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“Never Let Me Go” Film Summary The film starts with a scene that explains the extension of human life through a medical procedure that had been invented. One of the male characters, Tommy opens the scene lying on a table and is seen lying on Cathy who is on the other side of the window. Kathy gives a story of her life at Hailsham House boarding school where she had her studies as a child. The view changes to depict the childhood days of the three friends, Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth. Their school gave much emphasis on artwork instead of other aspects such as mathematics and science.
The best artwork by the pupils finds it way in the gallery. One of their teachers, Miss Lucy tells the pupils of the way that they are, that they live so that they could become organ donors at one point. Tommy and Cathy become great friends but Ruth spoils the relationship by attempting to snatch Tommy from Cathy, she is successful for a while. The three friends shift to some cottages in a farm where they encounter other young adults that came from schools that resembled theirs. At some point, they find a person whom they perceive to be a clone for Ruth making the three friends to arrange for a trip to go and see her.
Unfortunately there is little semblance, an aspect that rages Ruth a lot. Hearing that there was a possibility for ‘deferral’, Tommy gets to the gallery of Hilsham to check on whether the artwork would predict true love. However, he never sent any artwork hence a deferral cannot be established between him and Ruth. A split in the relationship occurs where Cathy sets herself from the rest to take the role of supporting organ donors. Also immediately, the relationship between the Tommy and Ruth ends.
Ten years later, Cathy meets a frail Ruth who organizes for a meeting of the three friends to seek for forgiveness. She donates her last organ and dies. Consequently, Tommy and Cathy become friends again but the play culminates when he is donating his last organ as Kathy is looking onto him on the other side of the glass window. The film is a science fiction that presents incidences that have been at the center of research. Organ donation is an aspect that of presented in the film, here focusing on growing individuals specifically for organ donation.
Jealousy in relationships is real especially where there is an act of desperation. Ruth was worried that she may be unable to find a friend just like Cathy because of the limited interactions. Tommy was the only man around them, so she opted to compete with her. Another issue is the aspect of superstition; here an individual believes that his or her mate can be obtained through some process that can result to disappointment if it fails to be true. The specific roles taken by the three friends, Tommy, Cathy, and Ruth from childhood are pronounced at adulthood.
Their school has created an enabling environment for children to express themselves through art. The story as it is written by Kazuo Ishiguro brings a creative dimension of what can happen in a technologically changing environment. The relationship between the three friends demonstrates some link that despite their long separation, they come together. At the midst of adversity, Ruth is calling for reconciliation as well as admits her mistakes.
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