Never Let Me Go (2010), a film based on the best-selling novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (Remains of the Day), is a tale of genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors who embrace a fleeting chance to live and love. Never Let Me Go is an unreality that will stay with you for days . . . clinging like heat in an attic . . . or an old wound.
The sea, a boundless prison ever flowing with beauty, is a gate. A boat, rusted, lying on its side as if discarded on the seashore by a child’s lost interest, is the key—useless as it is. A whipping wind then, as the clones watch from the sand, becomes no more than the stinging chill of hopelessness.
