Review of Never Let Me Go (2010) by Altdrsmoothop — 06 Oct 2011

The most common criticism I see of this movie is that nobody subjected to this treatment would accept it as it is, but as a work of fiction it's trying to say something, so put that aside for a moment.

but after I saw the movie it lingered in my head and I spent the rest of the night thinking of it. never let me go is about cruelty and apathy, on a macro and micro level. It's about the cruel things we do to each other, and that are imposed on us by society, and the cruelty inherent to humans.

and for that to come through you have to be with these characters and feel almost like you want to turn it off, because you know what's coming. and, more profoundly, as is explicit in the movie's closing, it's about losing what makes life worth living, and feeling, all the time subjectively when faced with the inevitable peril of vanishing from consciousness, that it is somehow unfair that we have not had much more time to revel in what we have, and that it has been taken or we have lost it somehow.

very good and thought provoking, but I would not suggest it if you are one of those people that can't sustain a fiction because you keep trying to superimpose the reality you're used to and because you have trouble with metaphor.

you know who you are.