With Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Kate Bowes Renna and Charlotte Rampling; directed by Mark Romanek.
By Kevin Bowen - September 30, 2010
At first sight, Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go” is the Harry Potter film for a modern dystopia. It nails much of what I dislike about Hogwarts Academy, the conformity, the noble-minded authoritarianism, the obedient little drone who achieves heroism through obedience and destiny rather than sacrifice. Created by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the Hailsham students of “Never Let Me Go” are chosen by birthright to save people as well, but they won’t be celebrated, and it will come at great unspoken cost.
Then again, “Never Let Me Go” is like “Blade Runner,” isn’t it? Anchored around the lives of characters who are designed to use and dispose. Sacrificial beings for the betterment of others. One calls death “retirement.” The other “completion.” Each...
By Kevin Bowen - September 30, 2010
At first sight, Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go” is the Harry Potter film for a modern dystopia. It nails much of what I dislike about Hogwarts Academy, the conformity, the noble-minded authoritarianism, the obedient little drone who achieves heroism through obedience and destiny rather than sacrifice. Created by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the Hailsham students of “Never Let Me Go” are chosen by birthright to save people as well, but they won’t be celebrated, and it will come at great unspoken cost.
Then again, “Never Let Me Go” is like “Blade Runner,” isn’t it? Anchored around the lives of characters who are designed to use and dispose. Sacrificial beings for the betterment of others. One calls death “retirement.” The other “completion.” Each...
- 9/29/2010
- by Screen Comment
- Screen Comment
With Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Kate Bowes Renna and Charlotte Rampling; directed by Mark Romanek.
By Kevin Bowen - September 20, 2010
At first sight, Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go” is the Harry Potter film for a modern dystopia. It nails much of what I dislike about Hogwarts Academy, the conformity, the noble-minded authoritarianism, the obedient little drone who achieves heroism through obedience and destiny rather than sacrifice. Created by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the Hailsham students of “Never Let Me Go” are chosen by birthright to save people as well, but they won’t be celebrated, and it will come at great unspoken cost.
Then again, “Never Let Me Go” is like “Blade Runner,” isn’t it? Anchored around the lives of characters who are designed to use and dispose. Sacrificial beings for the betterment of others. One calls death “retirement.” The other “completion.” Each...
By Kevin Bowen - September 20, 2010
At first sight, Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go” is the Harry Potter film for a modern dystopia. It nails much of what I dislike about Hogwarts Academy, the conformity, the noble-minded authoritarianism, the obedient little drone who achieves heroism through obedience and destiny rather than sacrifice. Created by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the Hailsham students of “Never Let Me Go” are chosen by birthright to save people as well, but they won’t be celebrated, and it will come at great unspoken cost.
Then again, “Never Let Me Go” is like “Blade Runner,” isn’t it? Anchored around the lives of characters who are designed to use and dispose. Sacrificial beings for the betterment of others. One calls death “retirement.” The other “completion.” Each...
- 9/20/2010
- by Screen Comment
- Screen Comment
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