An art teacher known simply as “Madame” informs them that the lives they are leading are not ordinary lives they are children who have been cloned and are being bred as organ donors. They are brought up to be obsessively healthy and not allowed to consume or engage in anything that would poison their bodies, because, as the headmistress tells them, “Halisham children are special.”Įarly in the film it is revealed how “special” they are. The story is of Kathy ( Carey Mulligan), Tommy ( Andrew Garfield) and Ruth ( Keira Knightley) who we meet as young children attending an idyllic English boarding school named Halisham. The film, at its heart, is a story of love and friendship between three people who by the sake of their identities have a life long bond. Actually, it may help some in understanding the subtle and gradual nature of this rather complex and sobering film. Since both Ishiguro and director Mark Romanek have disclosed in many interviews a major plot point of the story, I do not feel the need to post a “Spoiler Alert” in mentioning a key “reveal” that serves as a defining moment in the sub plot of the story. Author Kazuo Ishiguro has described his 2005 novel Never Let Me Go as a Science Fiction story without the standard conventions of the genre.
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