Never Let Me Go

Try as I might I could not stay awake at times during this movie. No matter how much I fidgeted, it was hard to remain conscious. This film is like a narcotized frog on a lily pad on a stagnent pool. It goes nowhere. The script pushed me away and it kept me at a distance from the interesting characters. There was no emotional investment in these characters in spite of the superb acting by Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightly, and Carey Mulligan. Taken in context, the passivity of the clones made sense but their inability to rebel, to rage against the machine is frustrating for the audience. Garfield's screaming outburst at the impossibility of their situation comes to us too little too late. Perhaps the movie can be regarded as some sort of philosophical experience for longhairs to discuss the relative desirability of a life lived in quantity versus that of it lived in quality. This movie is not entirely a dud, but it is so damn enervating.