Brilliant parts of this movie/story
1) All the euphemistic terms used: donor program - as if they were actually 'donating'; carer - a handholder while the clones were chopped up, and of course it had to be a fellow clone, because no "real" human could stand to see that; complete - dying from too many organs being removed.
2) That the clones should just run away - it's shown, although incompletely, that all of society is structured to accommodate the donor program, the clones are kept separate, yet allowed into society in limited ways. Think of how people think of "free-range" livestock as being healthier and more humane. Keeping them completely in pens would likely result in less healthy organs come harvest time, don't you think?
3) People who think "this could never happen" - Others on this board have presented examples where humans have done incredibly inhumane things to each other, and still do. Plus, look at how people are capable of believing in incredibly fantastical things, particularly if they are submerged in such things from the time of birth. Such as, you believe in this magic being, then when you "complete" you will get to live in happiness forever. It parallels in this story that you can have an extended, healthy life now, if you just believe that "these poor creatures" don't actually have "souls" and aren't really human. And that is a much easier jump for people who could actually see the results of that belief. All they have to do is keep believing, and not look too deeply into it, and all will be OK. The headmistress at Hailsham wanted to show that they did indeed have "souls" but as she says, "It was a question no one was asking." People were happy in their ignorance and didn't want to see anything that could change that.
4) Were the clones human or not? - this issue has been addressed in a lot of science fiction. Here we spend time with the clones as they age and complete. Since there is never a definition for a "soul", which is how this story tries to determine humanity, there is nothing that can be done to prove they are really human. Yet, we see them care for each other, seek answers for their reason for being, try to survive longer than their fate will allow (the same as for the "real" humans in this story), and perform things outside of what they have been "programmed" to do. But if no one is willing to look, who will ever see this?
I was born sickshare
But I love it