We go to the movies, to escape, to feel something, to have an experience. We also eat for many reasons: hunger, boredom, to socialize, to feel good. However a Chef can prepare a masterpeice of sand; the meal can have no value to an eager customer except perhaps if we desire frustration and depression. The author fails to recognize we cannot escape our own humanity. The moral absurdity of this world overwhelms the love story which is the main premise of the film. The characters don't live humans lives and don't behave like humans except in one aspect of life, love and jealousy.
The author wanted to create a familiar story in an unfamiliar, even disturbing, setting. The love story acts as a mirror, a device, revealing this unfamiliar world is not so different from our own. We are both groomed to live up to expectations but demanded to accept a fate of death and we do. We both find meaning in our lives despite our fate but that is where the analogy ends. These characters don't live because they don't have families, careers, choices, the things that would give our lives meaning. Perhaps there is exists a meaning of life we don't experience that we should.
I suppose that may have been the intent of the author, but that maybe reaching. The purpose of the story could be to discuss the ethics of this society and our own failings, or to have us ponder the qualities that shape a soul. There lies danger, to question the humanity of these characters will end the refutation of our own humanity.
