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A Good Twist Would Have Been.....

posted 10 years ago by Posh_babe
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if the kids weren't clones but orphans or rather unwanted children.

Society had progressed through medical technology and could do organ transplants but not enough donors. So the Government pretended it could "clone" or make copies of existing humans to provide organs for it's voters.

Basically most societies create an underclass i.e. since early so-called civilisation people, even children, have been enslaved and worked to death. If organ transplants had existed in Egyptian or Roman times I'm sure they'd have sacrificed their slaves in a heartbeat (pardon the pun).

So the author's social commentary is that we may have progressed in terms of technology, but we haven't evolved to the point where we see everyone - no matter who they are - as equals.

These "clones" are our equals and how anyone could doubt it is puzzling.

Anyway I'm sure the author meant that these character are indeed clones but society as a whole are happy to enslave them.

I just think a good twist is that the characters find out that cloning is not yet possible.

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[–] xristospsixogios 9 years ago

I was about to make a post about this too. But the fact is that when I saw it for a 3rd time 2 hours ago I was still thinking that Kathy,Tomy and Ruth were indeed orphans or unwanted children and not clones that were used for giving away their organs. Maybe I'm completely stupid but after 3 screenings of the film (because I can call it one of my favorites) I haven't thought about that until I came here and read it on several posts. I don't know why but the word cloning was never mentioned during the whole film only from side to side or I was distracted when someone mentioned it.

[–] dolores_medina 9 years ago

They kept on discussing how they were " modeled". Ruth even went to see someone she was supposedly " Modeled from" The woman looked a L:OT Like her. After a while I just assumed "Modeled" was their word for "Cloned".

When I saw that the Original novel uses the term " clone", I was not surprised.

Was it subtle? yes, then again,. we need to remember the children in Hailshem were not taught anything other than what they would need to get by day to day outside their donations. Very unlikely they would hear the term " clone".

[–] henrimaine 9 years ago

So the cloning of children would have been just a cover story to hide the fact that actually these were just unwanted children from poor families who were being harvested for organs. That would have been quite an interesting twist indeed. I like it because it would have distanced Never Let Me Go from movies like Clonus Horror (1979) and The Island (2005), which are also dealing with the production of clones.