Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go is a british film adapted from famed the novel by Man-Booker prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. The film stars british actors Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Kiera Knightly. I am considering this post as the conclusion of my Carey Mulligan Trilogy. The film is directed by Mark Romanek and is set in an alternative dystopian future, in which clones are cultivated simply for their organs. The main leads star as three of these children who are living in a boarding school in england, and who become embroiled in a love triangle.

The film is set in a school in the English countryside, and it is refreshing to see a film set in a dystopian future, which is not violent or overly sci-fi, and which sacrifices shock factor for a tenderness and a beauty, rather than being 'edgily ugly'. The film concentrates on performance rather than large set pieces, and the main relationships are at the forefront.

The performances in the film are great, and the three leads shine, adding depth and subtlety to the roles they play, and allowing the audience to see themselves on screen, and allowing us to empathize with the characters. The film deals with themes of disillusionment, pain and loss. The characters live in a world in which death is certain, and where they know that they will die at some point in the next years, yet they still manage to see the beauty in the world. The characters are treated like trash by the world, and they are clones whose only purpose in the world is to   donate their organs, yet we still are able to see what the rest of the world can not.

Overall this is a good film, which despite being a little slow, contains great performances from it's leads, and which is a great story and is surprisingly different from other films of it's genre. I really enjoyed this film despite it's flaws, and it is worth a watch Rating: A-

Miss Emily: We didn't have to look into your souls, we had to see if you had souls at all.