Your most memorable scene from the movie?

hardbore,

I loved this movie too. My favorite part was Tommy's look of not only disbelief
but horror when they were told they could not have their 2 year delay. How much
time he must have spent on the drawings. How much hope they both had.

Marge

I love this movie too...and I agree with you one hundred percent. It's not about trying to run away so they could have more time, it's about what they did with the time they had.
I think if I had to pick a scene it's when Kathy stops reading to Tommy and gets in his bed with him...not because they are going to have sex but because that's when they begin their time together. Even if it was only weeks or months, they did get time together.

"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"

I have two: when Kathy meets Ruth again at the hospital and they walk along the corridor with Ruth using a zimmer frame for aid and she turns to Kathy and says something like 'I must seem quite broken to you'. What a remarkable moment in terms of acting, dialogue and impact. My second favourite is when Tommy tells Kathy he knew why she was looking at the porno magazine and then tells her in a voice that breaks slightly that her sexual feelings had been normal. This moment hurt so much as it showed the empathy between Kathy and Tommy that is what should have united them as a couple but didn't until the end.

Why problem make? When you no problem have, you don't want to make ...

The moments I remember the best are often the ones that left the biggest impact, so here goes:

When they are in the cafe and all three order the same as the first guy (don't remember his name) just like Tommy did when they were rehearsing as children.

Same scene, but later, when referrals are brought up for the first time and everyone acts so strange - it really made me see that these people don't have a well developed social intelligence. And then the girl (don't remember her name) says something like "why do you keep it to yourself? Why can't the rest of us get referrals too?" - it just seemed like there was a double-meaning there.

When Tommy realizes referrals isn't real. Just the look on his face.

When Ruth dies and then later when Tommy dies. The way the doctors handled them, the look in Ruth's eyes... just everything.

I didn't like that. To say that donors are essentially the same as non-donors because "we all gotta go sometime," and "everyone feels like they haven't had enough time," negates everything that went before it in the film - the horror of a donor's life, the evil of raising human beings as organ farms, the suffering they went through. And most of all, the early death, which is not just a possibility, as it is with non-donors, but is a CERTAINTY. They are not the same. This scene seemed to imply that none of all that donor stuff really mattered - what counts is making the best of whatever time you have. And that really disappointed me. If that's the moral of the story, doesn't it trivialize all the issues raised earlier in the film?

When Ruth dies but also when the Madame says "i wish i could help you", touches her face before they part ways, and they have the same hair, color and length...

I absolutely loved the scene where the kids are all gathered together at Hailsham, in that great big hall, and Kathy looks over to Tommy and sees Ruth taking his hand. In the context of the plot leading up to that point, it was just brilliant. While I felt sorry for Kathy I found the trickery, her pain and shock oddly entertaining. Had me smiling for minutes.

Where the doctors took out Kathy's liver or whatnot and left the carcass on the table. Delicious viciousness, brutality at its best.