Movie review score
5
Never Let me Go :-
" Live stock on a slaughter house waiting for its end "
This is one hell of perfect dystopian science fiction drama ever seen. Movie starts with below title card post which a small clip in hospital followed by children in school capturing their daily life . But not for one second i would have thought that this movie would take such a turn when Miss Lucy explains reasons for their presence , a complete turnout where your senses couldnt even believe or accept the fate of those beautiful little children in that Hailsham school and their destined fate which is already written when they are brought into this world of sinners. From then on i felt that school as one Hells gate , but nothing less then that....
Title Card: The breakthrough in medical science came in 1952. Doctors could now cure the previously incurable. By 1967, life expectancy passed 100 years.
This movie is based on Organ Donation during 80's where few kids are breed in schools across the country just for one purpose , ie for organ donation when they become adults.Plot of movie revolves around three main characters Ruth , Tommy and kathy depicting their friendship , love , lust , desires within their short span of life they live in. For some to live , some has to die, this is what this movie is about. Government run authorized champs or say schools to raise cute little children from childhood providing Education food and shelter . But end of the day they are cattle's who will be sent to the slaughter house called completion center when they reach adulthood, Following that those young innocent life's will be pulled out from them in-front of their own eyes. Those kids have no say , nowhere to go but just to accept their fate and have a decent ending to their life. The term they call is "Complete" means that is when you fulfilled your purpose leaving your last breath post number of vital organs snatched from your body with your consent in name of donations. People would be donating their organs one by one with a short interval between each donations , some survive couple of donations and some die on their first donation itself but whatever it is...they will have to keep donating till they die. So with this cruel nature of life , a love triangle forms between Kathy Tommy n Ruth and their horrible fate of never ending story forms the remaining part of the story. They never wanted to let go but they had no choice then to accept and die.
More then this being a engaging movie , i would prefer it to say most disturbing , heart wrenching and resentful movie i seen. Empathizing their life and their wish to live more but the fact they couldn't just tears you apart and breaks you down. What sort of human beings are we if you are killing innocent young people for your rustic worthless shit life and what difference it makes you from a murderer. Donations means with full consent , but here these poor people had no choice. When Tommy n Kathy meet deferrals there were two incidents were it brought more anger in me which i couldn't resist , one when Miss Emily says " We didn't have to look into your souls, we had to see if you had souls at all " and when Madame say " You Poor creatures " and i just felt damned by the way these organ donors were treated. Especially the last lines from Kathy before movie ending would bring us heaviness in heart with tears in eyes and she did made a point clear wit this little quote " What I'm not sure about is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time ". This shows how those helpless souls desperate to live a day more and to breath a little longer.
When the last hope of getting a deferral fails Tommy breaks in at mid of the road with tears down completely shattered shows how helpless they are. This is just insane when people who willing to live are been forced to accept their end proves how cruel 'n' sadistic, people desires could be. I just couldn't digest this plot at all and i do understand in early days many innocent peoples life were taken in name of science research by secret medical organizations to understand how human organ functions and this movie is no different from it. I just wish this was all fictional and have never happened in real.But at a clip when Kathy gets into a wan which had label of a well know organization , i even doubt if it ever really existed those days. Now i would rather stop thinking about it which could easily disturb my sleep.
But apart from it , this is one hell of a excellent movie to the core and all credits for the maker Mark Romanek for pulling out such a wonder. Don't assume it to be some romance drama alone, no its not but rather much more then that.... There are only few handful movies which would leave a strong impression in you , haunting you for days n months and this movie would easily fall among that category. A must watch movie without fail and it could even be a life changing experience for some. Be prepared for what you are going to see.....but watch it with heart and Soul...!!!
Even the sound tacks are mind blowing..too touchy , melancholic and haunting too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-StO_CcOYPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTjn7mBI9c ( Never Let Me Go Soundtrack-We All Complete )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgsgH_gC5U ( Never Let Me Go Soundtrack-Kathy And Tommy )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPBQU60pzx0 ( Never Let Me Go Soundtrack-Main Titles )
