Audiences may be shocked by the moral norms accepted by the world of Never Let Me Go, but the film is a stark warning to check the moral blind spots of our own age. But is it so far from the truth? The children of the last few decades have grown up in a society which is losing its grip on absolutes. The actress laughs this off as "a bleak thought". Keira Knightley tells of how a friend urged her to read the book, saying that it defines our generation. Will they try to escape it, or even learn to seize upon the short time that they have? But as the years pass, their grim destiny looms ever closer. Far more real are the everyday concerns of friendship, and the unspoken love triangle already forming between them. Growing up at Hailsham boarding school, their lives are barely even marred when they are told of a dark fate awaiting them in early adulthood.
Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) have an idyllic childhood. Lost Souls Image © Twentieth Century Fox. It's a world where the right questions are no longer asked. Instead it's an apparently tranquil, progressive world where tedious paperwork and restrained euphemisms conceal the horror beneath: where one group of people is systematically sacrificed to meet the needs of the rest.
The alternative Britain that the story portrays isn't a typical rainy dystopia. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go, adapted from the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is.
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