Thursday 8th September
Director: Mark Romanek
Year: 2010
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield
This was the second of two movies I watched on the flight to Toronto. Well, I was on the flight for something like eight hours, so I think two movies is acceptable.
This was another movie I had some trepidation about watching. When I'd watched the trailer when the movie was first released I was really keen to go and see Never Let Me Go at the cinema, but somehow never got around to doing so. Since then, however, I've read the book... and it's not as good as I had hoped. The novel keeps hinting at something more, and something more just doesn't emerge.
Happily, the movie doesn't suffer from the same problems. The story is a lot more concise, and instead of hinting, it just tells you what is happening. The ending also sums up, I suspect, the "something more" the book was trying to hint at, making the point very clearly - and in a satisfying way. Don't get me wrong, Never Let Me Go isn't a happy movie - but it does have the rare honour of being a movie I enjoyed more than the book, even when I read the book first.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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