The two films have thematic similarities, and both end with their protagonists being led to preordained fates by a 'child' they believe to be helping.
On movie screens, lovers and friends say it to each other a lot; it means that your encounter with someone was preordained by fate, and is therefore of the deepest importance.
Slowly you realise that Hailsham, with its vocabulary of euphemism and evasion - 'donors', 'completes', 'carers', 'possibles' - is no ordinary boarding school and its children are not even fully human, but the product of a scientific experiment, their lives preordained, the fate awaiting them desolating and monstrous.
Fighting a fate preordained as much by his genes as by his country, Thomas's narrator is a man perpetually at risk.
But despite the build up, the tonal closure makes the story one of an ill fate preordained, the final line let down that "one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin".
Who else would use "preordained" and "destiny" in basketball?
In the course of his preaching, Henry Ward Beecher came to reject his father Lyman's theology, which "combined the old belief that 'human fate was preordained by God's plan' with a faith in the capacity of rational men and women to purge society of its sinful ways".
Chelsea's fate was possibly preordained.
When he falls in love with a free-spirited dancer (Emily Blunt), he learns that his fate has been preordained by an omnipotent bureaucrat known as the Chairman (who is presumably God, or Frank Sinatra), who has sent a team of celestial functionaries to earth to make sure David sticks to the plan.
