NEVER LET ME GO - 5 Movies That Changed My Life
This film is essentially a parable, a microcosm of human life.
It is set in a world where people are created artificially, so that their organs can be harvested whenever a human needs a transplant. For this reason, the donors never live past thirty.
As we watch the characters we experience the pain of the shortness of their lives, but this is then reflected back onto us, at the shortness of our own lives.
This was one of those rare films where when it ended, I just sat in silence until the credits finished, processing what I had seen. I then watched all of the extras.
In the extras the director talks about interviews that he had conducted in preparation for this movie, with people who had been given a terminal diagnosis.
One of the things that he found while conducting the interviews was that when people were given the news, the vast majority of people did not go on that cruise they had always wanted to go on, or booked a round the world trip. Instead they went home, cooked beans on toast…
It is set in a world where people are created artificially, so that their organs can be harvested whenever a human needs a transplant. For this reason, the donors never live past thirty.
As we watch the characters we experience the pain of the shortness of their lives, but this is then reflected back onto us, at the shortness of our own lives.
This was one of those rare films where when it ended, I just sat in silence until the credits finished, processing what I had seen. I then watched all of the extras.
In the extras the director talks about interviews that he had conducted in preparation for this movie, with people who had been given a terminal diagnosis.
One of the things that he found while conducting the interviews was that when people were given the news, the vast majority of people did not go on that cruise they had always wanted to go on, or booked a round the world trip. Instead they went home, cooked beans on toast…
