Quick Review: Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go (2010)

Overall Score: 79%

Certified: Trumpeter Swan

Score Breakdown:

Performance: 90% Plot: 60% Script: 78% Visuals: 87% Music: 80%

Forgive me for my lateness, please. Okay apparently been reading the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, but due to my laziness and honestly speaking it’s kinda boring, so I’ve been putting it off and skipped to watch the movie instead. Not much to brag about this movie, though the view in the scenes are amazing, also accompanied by the touch of its melancholy music which makes us feel depressed. Without any doubt, we are enchanted once again by Carey Mulligan’s remarkable performances just as accomplished (as An Education); maybe it’s her sad smile which conveys the devastating and immense atmosphere.

Somehow, as I went along with the movie, it’s dull and empty like I wanted more from it and that’s why I decided to continue reading the novel, in search for the hopes that I might find a more intriguing storyline. At the end, the emotion which was gradually built seemed to linger in my memory so I must admit that Mark Romanek did an impressive adaptation as the novel is a difficult one to adapt, transforming it into a realistic sci-fi.

So, what's the movie all about anyway? I know some of you might have watched it, but for those who haven't, I'll try not to spoil it as much as possible. The story unfolds the life and relationship of the three privilege students from a British boarding school, Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Ruth (Keira Knightley) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield) sets back in the late 1990s. As they grow up together, they soon discover the ugly truth about how their lives have been set up related to the humanism and ethnical concerns among the society.

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