Never Let Me Go
2010
**
Director: Mark Romanek
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Charlotte Rampling, Isobel Meikle-Small, Ella Purnell, Nathalie Richard, Charlie Rowe, Domhnall Gleeson, Andrea Riseborough
In the 1970s, a group of British children are brought up in isolation in Hailsham, in an unusual boarding school-like facility. One day they learn the horrific truth about their purpose. This stately drama takes a timely and fascinating topic (which was also explored in The Island), and tells a gloomy but disappointingly unaffecting story of three of the Hailsham kids. The central question is whether Kathy, Ruth and Tommy are like normal people. The film attempts to argue yes, but looking at the submissive trio succumb to their fates without any resistance, my feeling is no. Alex Garland scripted from Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel.
