Never Let Me Go. Do you sometimes like to be depressed during and after watching a movie? If so, this is the movie for you. The movie revolves around three children (Kathy, Tommy, Ruth) who grow up in a guarded environment. Their eventual fate is to have their vital organs harvested for others. Though the movie doesn't provide you with the definitive fact, you do understand that the children are clones of criminals, prostitutes and other undesirables of society. The movie follows these three (Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley) through three stages of their lives: childhood, young adulthood and final days. Throughout the movie, you see their enthusiasm for life drift towards a search for meaning to resolution of why they were given life.
I did enjoy the movie though I wished there was more of two issues discussed:
1. There was some interaction with the outside world and you did get the idea that those they interacted with felt some shame; however, I would have liked a little bit more debate on why the UK (the setting being in the UK) found this acceptable.
2. It appeared that the children, as adults, accepted their fate with resignation. There seemed to be no desire to escape (there is an attempt to postpone, but not avoid) their destiny. I would think that resistance at least among some is a natural tendency though I will admit that in grade school there were daily propaganda rallies so perhaps this lack of desire for a full life is explained via childhood brainwashing.
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