Never let me go - Mark Romanek (2010)
Sullo sfondo una scuola idilliaca, immersa nella campagna inglese, giovani studenti in attesa di crescere: Tom, Ruth e Kathy H spiccano tra tutti. Tom "dal cuore grande e dalla terribile rabbia" conteso tra le due amiche: Ruth così decisa ma così insicura e Kathy H, così sensibile e remissiva.
Starete pensando: il solito triangolo tear-jerking love, where everything goes the wrong way and rushed always in the most vulgar sentimentality, the kind that makes you gnaw your liver after viewing.
would definitely end this way, except that the school in an idyllic reality is an institution for young clones, prospective organ donors, whose life has already been programmed. Its vision is dystopian (or utopian?) Of an alternative world, where life expectancy has lengthened, the most humiliating diseases become curable and all this thanks to cloning legalized. The problem Ethics seems to have exceeded its legal, but psychological.
How could it be different from any other life than a clone? Awaits them tasteless and miserable existence or be able to demonstrate that they have a soul?
The director Mark Romanek is moving in a gentle, warm colors, hypnotic. ; The melancholy hovers over everything the film and, in particular, the three protagonists who seem resigned to their saving mission. The physical mortification to which they are subject is barely touched by the director who prefers to stay on an emotional level, rather than ethical. The effect is alienating. I was expecting a science fiction story and yet I find myself in front of a story with shades myths and heartbreaking. Perhaps this is apparent and the total balance is so painful for the viewer.
A touching film, intense in its minimalism. And so the cast: Andrew Garfield (which I personally loved "The Social Network"), Keira Knightley (A little 'fuzzy, overshadowed the other main character) and Carey Mulligan (clearly declined in the role).
In general, the film moves very quietly until the final explosive (as opposed performance of the film) and so the actors, modest and deeply absorbed from the air, except in flashes, the character of Ruth. This should not lead you to think that the pace of the film is slow because the story is engaging, interesting, and it is impossible that there is no escape down a tear. The effect is short of three puppies abandoned on the street, victims of an injustice not to give up to get excited and excited to be reflected.
The atmosphere is magical, out of time and space, a touch of melancholy elegance. Wonderful photography. Excellent film. Rating: 8.5.
PS I forgot to tell you that the film is based on beautiful novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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