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Never Let Me Go (2010) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
987 |
Avg. Rating: |
2.92/4 |
# of Ratings: |
64 |
Genres: |
Drama, Thriller |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
English |
Theater Date: | 09/15/2010 |
DVD Release: |
02/01/2011 |
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Director: |
Mark Romanek |
Actors: |
Keira Knightley
Carey Mulligan
Andrew Garfield
Charlotte Rampling
Andrea Riseborough
Sally Hawkins |
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Plot Outline:
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Three children who have spent their lives together at the same English boarding school must come to terms with their relationship and the harsh reality of life. -- Chris Kavan
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mitchellyoung 08/12/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
This is an extremely faithful and moving adaptation of Ishiguro's fantastic novel. There are parts that play slowly that are more involving as written words, but, generally, the film excellently captures the melancholy meditation on life and death that is the film's central theme. Wonderfully acted and filmed. |
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Rod 04/04/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
"Never Let Me Go" shows the life of unworldly people. The drama of how their life were directed even before knowing the reality of it- and the resistance of getting off in it.
Since the story was narrated and from the point of view of an unworldly character, the thought of the film goes through critical region. BUT I must say that the drama in it was sustained.
What I actually like in this movie, is that it made me believed that it is a film based on a novel based on a true story. It moved me. AND the cast performed well. |
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Bri 01/07/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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2.5/4 |
You'll be moved....to tears of boredom. A wonderfully acted, perfectly cast, and beautifully shot movie that is really boring as all get out. It doesn't even get interesting when you find out the ~big reveal, which was ripe for interesting discussions or even heart-racing action. Instead, you get a quiet British film where they hardly even raise their voices. You'll be moved if you can bring yourself to care that much. |
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09/04/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Never Let Me Go review |
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AI and Surrogates without the special effects and with a love story angle. Kathy H (Carey Mulligan) recalls her childhood at Hailsham together with Tommy (Charlie Rowe/Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Ella Purnell/Keira Knightley). Narration and score was good. Some scenes were a bit sluggish. Cinematography and photography were spectacular. Highlight would be Mulligan's performance and the brilliant screenplay. One of the best lines: Kathy - "We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time." and "It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart." Never Let Me Go's intent i... |
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3/4 |
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04/28/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Much weaker than the book! |
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I've read the book, so I maybe got an unfairly advantage over those who haven't but watched only the movie, but have I seen the movie first, I probably wouldn't even want to read the book. Because movie went in quite a different direction than the book - in my opinion - changed the characters and the way their relationships were. While watching the movie, I couldn't feel the connection with the characters nor understand their relationships as well as why do people behave like that to them - I was more frustrated by their passivity and submissiveness, which was nowhere to be explained except by their childhood brainwashing and electronic gadgets that kept them constantly under surveillance. But that things do not really explain why they didn't even TRY to change things - that's why the boo... |
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3/4 |
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10/26/2010 (1 of 1 found this helpful) |
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could have and should have been more powerful |
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If you’ve paid any attention to trailers, you’ll know that Never Let Me Go is based on what time magazine calls the best novel of the decade. I haven’t read the book, but I can only assume that it is at least decent book. When reviewing a film that is an adaptation of a book, I have a hard time deciding what to think. Sometimes the movie is changed drastically, and therefore you can treat it like an original story. But when it is a straight-up adaption, which I believe this is, I don’t know what to give the filmmakers credit for. After seeing this film, I think I understand.
Never Let Me Go studies the original themes of the novel, and does it well. Give them credit for that. I could use this time to discuss the story of people who live their whole life as spare parts. But I wont beca... |
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