Never Let Me Go | Movie Review [8.4/10]

My overall rating : 8.4 / 10

Rating per categories, 10 being maximum of points and 1 being minimum :

Directing : 8
Script : 8
Plot and Storyline : 8.5
Cinematography and visuals: 8.5
Characters and acting : 9

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Film & Animation

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[theclosethomosapien]

We all come to the same completeness. Set against the longevity of the universe our lives are hardly a blip longer than a mayfly's.No one lives forever and I, for one, wouldn't want to.

[SerbAtheist]

@105km Why don't they run? There is an analogous situation in the real world. Think of all the young males sent off to war to die. They are told it's their duty; they are told it's their purpose. Anyone who doesn't is labelled a traitor, a deserter, a coward. Why do they go to their in some cases VERY likely deaths? The same is true in this movie. Cathy mentions in the beginning she is PROUD of her work. It's all she knows. She doesn't fit in the world. What would she do if she DID run?

[SerbAtheist]

@download333 It's obvious this is an alternative universe where some technology came a bit quicker than in our own. On the other hand, everything seems to be run down and oldfashioned because the world is dominated by old people who have no more drive or creativity, which makes this movie in a way even more horrifying. I love how subtly the movie implies this throughout.

[Redflowers9]

but then again is our death as individuals relevant given the possibility that there is no after life? Surely it's just the pain of dying which is the issue. If I was dead then I wouldn't care about anything to be depressed anyway.

[BambuProductions]

I watched this yesterday and it is indeed very haunting. I completely agree with everything you said!

[ladylad7181]

Good review.  Thank you.

[ladylad7181]

As to the comments re why no rebellion, it has been suggested strongly that the cloned embryos are genetically designed to be passive. like cattle.

[brooksboy78]

@TheMondo47 Did you not listen? It is an ALLAGORY! Just a metaphore of death. Can you run away from your fate? No. So it symbolizes the aspect of death and how people deal with it.

[TheMondo47]

It was so stupid that the characters did not even think of running away from there fate.

[TheMondo47]

It was so stupid that the characters did not even think of running away from there fate. 

[serghina]

I know I shouldn't take it litterally. but I do... and it makes me depressed....yet when I think about what it means to us, it doesn't bother me. I really liked your review... very very well done.

[missjones873]

@Shirleyxia74 Oh yes, many many tissues. I just finished it, and I've been weeping for about 15 minutes...

[vohshkab]

Absolutely amazing movie - I can't believe that some people don't seem to get it. There is a huge similarity between Japanese and English society and can be summed up as a stoic acceptance of ones calling in life. I can't wait to get stuck into the book. Normally I don't like Kiera Knightly but here she was fantastic and Carey Mulligan just awesome. This could be made into a fantastic stage play. Best movie of the year and I totally agree with this review.

[rainoflazra]

This is a great movie. Criss, thanks for the recommendation.

[fudo9]

Being Japanese, Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go, is a metaphor for the slaughter of the human being by control and convention of Japanese society.

That is why it almost doesn’t work as a movie in English society, even though the similarities between Japanese society and English society are vast.

[fudo9]

Myself, being English, I feel that it does work in a very ghoulish way and I found it extremely disturbing.

If we get to realize this at any point before or whilst watching the movie it takes on a third dimension and becomes horribly spooky.

This move could only have come out of a Japanese mind.

Enjoy the movie

[runtubefantasy]

I saw the move, although I also thought the cinamatography and acting were good, the story seemed to kind of fail. I think i'll have to read the book.

[Shirleyxia74]

I watched it...and cried a lot.

so yeah, if your gonna watch this movie, prepare tissues.

[JasperMonkReviews]

Good review, but couldn't quite accept the conceit as much as you did. It's good to see films like this being made, even if (in my opinion) this one was a bit of a misfire.

[aikighost]

Hey Criss this is the best review of this movie on you tube. I don't know if its the movie or your very strong description of the philosophical core of the film itself. But your review had me crying.

Thank you and keep up the good work.

[davko79]

Thanks good video and review

[105km]

I watched it! Good movie, very toughing. But throughout the whole film I kept yelling at the screen - WTF are you thinking waiting around like that? You are free, youve even got a car!?!? GTFO!!!!! I understand they were raised like that. But its clear they didnt want to die. Why didnt they try to make a break for it? I would sooner blow my self and all my vital organs up, then let someone take them from me.

[rpVerlaine]

great review