{"id":7670,"date":"2012-05-21T18:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2014-10-22T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:08:22","slug":"never-let-me-go-2010-mark-romanek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7670","title":{"rendered":"Never Let Me Go (2010, Mark Romanek)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wacky new alternate-history sci-fi film from the writer of <em>Saddest Music in the World<\/em>.  No, not really &#8211; it&#8217;s a new lovingly-crafted drama about repressed love from the writer of <em>Remains of the Day<\/em>.  I was surprised to see Kazuo Ishiguro credited for <em>Saddest Music<\/em> &#8211; his original screenplay is unpublished, but I found a Maddin quote, calling the source a political satire, &#8220;a story about how Third World countries can survive only by losing all their dignity, or keep their dignity by panhandling in a very clever way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark <em>One Hour Photo<\/em> Romanek directs with sunlit fatalism.  The kids at boarding school come to realize that they&#8217;ve been bred for organ-harvesting a la <em>Parts: The Clonus Horror<\/em>, but instead of public exposure and revolution, the most they hope to attain is a couple extra years with the clone they love before their fatal surgeries.  Politically (because all sci-fi is political) it seems like an &#8220;every life has a soul&#8221; message, examining the consequence of creating life in a lab to help current humanity without considering that new life&#8217;s own worth.<\/p>\n<p>Keira Knightley mostly plays the cool and collected one, but gets to try on some of the histrionics she&#8217;d perfect in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7258\">A Dangerous Method<\/a><\/em>.  Carey Mulligan (less deadly-cute than in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6839\">Drive<\/a><\/em>) is so in love with Andrew Garfield (least interesting cast member of both <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5543\">Social Network<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4106\">Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus<\/a><\/em>) that for a while it seems like they&#8217;ll find a way out.  Charlotte Rampling (the awful, awful mother in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7008\">Melancholia<\/a><\/em>) keeps the kids in place, and Sally Hawkins (same year as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7171\">Submarine<\/a><\/em>) fails to bring enlightenment and rip the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wacky new alternate-history sci-fi film from the writer of Saddest Music in the World. No, not really &#8211; it&#8217;s a new lovingly-crafted drama about repressed love from the writer of Remains of the Day. I was surprised to see Kazuo Ishiguro credited for Saddest Music &#8211; his original screenplay is unpublished, but I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1448,1524,1576],"class_list":["post-7670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-cloning","tag-dystopia","tag-mark-romanek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9485,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/9485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}