Never Let Me Go...EVER

I just watched Never Let Me Go with Keira Knightly, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.  I actually really had high hopes for this film, but alas, I was let down again.

The concept of the film is kindof interesting.  It's about people who are engineered to be organ donors.  They don't survive much past 30, when they "complete" and donate their hearts and other vital organs.  The question the people in charge seem to be posed with is whether or not these kids/young adults have souls.  The subject is apparently debatable because they were grown for this purpose, and there fore many of the people who fathered this concept don't view them as humans.

Had the movie focused a little more on this subject, I think it would've been a little easier to swallow.  Instead, it focused on a sort of love triangle between the three main characters.  And even that wasn't well developed in my opinion.  It starts out with Cathy and Tommy in love and cute, then Ruth just swoops in and Tommy goes along with it?  That doesn't make sense to me.  Then, Cathy just forgives Tommy and takes him back 10 years later?

I really wanted this to be sort of a Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver type of film where the donors really fight back to have lives of their own and try to break free of Big Brother.  But instead they all just succumbed to their fates, like wusses.  You could almost argue, based on that reaction, that they didn't have souls.  Seems to me like a normal person would fight for their life, Rage Against the Machine so-to-speak.  Maybe there are too many movies and books like that, but it definitely would've made for a more interesting/engaging plot.

I'd say you can skip this one.  It was depressing and underdeveloped, a fatal combination for any flick.