Never Let Me Go (2010)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 103 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / United States
Directed by: Mark Romanek
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield
IMDb score:
7,1 (159.572)
Releasedate: 18 March 2010
Never Let Me Go plot
"These students have everything they need. Except time."
The story is about three children who grow up in an idyllic English boarding school without having any contact or any idea what goes on outside their school. After leaving school , they look back on their school days with its darker sides .
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Actors and actresses
Kathy H.
Ruth C.
Tommy D.
Young Kathy
Young Ruth
Young Tommy
Miss Lucy
Miss Emily
Rodney
Chrissie
Reviews & comments
Elineloves
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- 24071 messages
- 3632 votes
Phoe, Never Let Me Go was heavier and more tiring than I expected. It is never lighthearted and that's why you're watching with a kind of 'cramped' feeling. I probably had wrong expectations.
I thought I saw a film in which three children/young people would naively escape together from an oppressive, protective environment and then find out the truth (which truth I didn't know yet, but you could guess that something was wrong). come. Somewhat true, but unfortunately it never got interesting or exciting. This is largely because I had little to no empathy for the characters. Too little depth, in my opinion.
The clone and donation story that was introduced quite quickly is something I didn't see coming beforehand. Yet it hardly interested me. Too bad, because it's a pretty good thing in itself. People are cloned purely for their organs. They are not in contact with their parents or other caregivers, instead they attend a boarding school from birth to age 18 that is specially made for people like them. This could have been a beautiful thing, but unfortunately . The love story surrounding it was not too exaggerated, but on the other hand it wasn't very special either.
Not a bad movie, but not good either. Let's just say this movie wasn't for me.
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Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
Mediocre.
The whole clone thing feels a bit old by now. It is perhaps a bit too much of a vision of the future from about 20 years ago, so that all the ethics surrounding it don't seem to make much sense.
Also very special to build a sci-fi story in the past. An alternative past that doesn't really differ from what we know, except the clone farms and the happenings around them. Unfortunately, in this case that also means that the film is trapped in a crummy British straitjacket, not exactly my favorite setting.
The film mostly sticks to that. It's all quite melancholy, without really having any impact. Quite a bit passes in review, but in a surprisingly volatile, uninteresting way. The story seems to have a certain depth throughout that is not reflected in the film itself.
Acting is decent, soundtrack too corny and visually quite boring. Poster is also completely misplaced, suggests another movie. Separate film, that could have been an interesting starting point, but the way it is worked out is just too dusty.
2.5*
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