Review of Never Let Me Go (2010) by Dawn V — 08 Jun 2012

A georgous and depressing film that leaves you with a huge hole in your gut at the end. When this movie was finished I had tears in my face. I felt troubled. And a litte scared. I even thought about my own life and that moment and realized how much we take our relationships for granted. Love, behavior, and friendships - how important this all is.

This film is exploring what it is to have a soul, and how you prove what a soul is, so beautifully, and yet it terrifies you. What happens here, is that people are cloned to serve as donors. These clones have no parents in the sense we use the term. I'm not even sure they can be parents. They exist to grow hearts, kidneys, livers and other useful items, and then, sadly, to die after too much has been cut away.

Keira Knightley embraces the ambiguity in Ruth, and Andrew Garfield is almost frighteningly vulnerable as the boy who briefly glimpses beyond his bubble. But Carey Mulligan is the supernaturally talented force that holds the film together.

This is a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the night....