Never Let Me Go: Blu-Ray: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Review by JAM
As Valentine’s Day approaches, talk is made about undying love and a future together forever. But what if your life was not even your own, if all you had to live for was not love but rather harvest and death, and then ask yourself if you could take the chance on love like any non-clone.
Never Let Me Go follows the lives of Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Ruth (Keira Knightley), and Tommy (Andrew Garfield), three best friends that grew up in a boarding school environment segregated from the rest of the world with a focus on health and wellness. Only later do they begin to understand that their lives are not their own as they are truly organ farms, grown to continue the existence of others at all costs. Following this revelation, their lives become an inevitable race against the time that each knows will come yet they still attempt to embrace and capture love as fleeting as their lives may be and therein lies the heart of Never Let Me Go.
JAMS Ink on Never Let Me Go
A dystopian world in which technology seems behind our current times, yet the idea of cloning humans in order to raise the longevity of the human lifetime while using the organs of those grown for just such a task seems so scientifically ahead of the times. The bleak countryside gives the movie a retro setting like a period piece from a Jane Austen novel yet I still struggled with the idea of life as an organ farm. Maybe that is why this was so hard for me to watch. It is an interesting adaptation from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro but in a world of intense action, a thinking man’s piece about the shortness of life can often fall by the way side.
I am impressed by the ability to make Kiera Knightley look very plain in this movie. For a girl who could look good as a man-impersonating pirate, maybe a movie so focused on death even as it focuses on the living of life changed the perception of this leading lady. I could not see the beauty inside due to the disenchanted feelings the movie was causing. Or she just had a makeup artist that could work wonders.
EXTRAS
Very limited on the extras when compared to some of our more recent reviewed movies, there is a strong piece with cast/crew interviews and behind the scenes looks in The Secrets of Never Let Me Go. Otherwise the extras consist of photographic slideshows and fake PR for the clone program
Never Let Me Go from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment paints a bleak future in which I wish no part, but reminds us of the scant time we have and how we need to use it whether clone or not. Grab a copy on Blu-ray on February 1, 2011 and live life to the fullest.
NEVER LET ME GO Blu-ray:
Street Date: February 1, 2011
Screen Format: Widescreen
Audio: English 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio
French 5.1 Dolby Digital
Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles: English, French and Spanish
U.S. Rating: R
Total Run Time: 169 minutes
Closed Captioned: Yes
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