NEVER LET ME GO Featurette - Exploring the Story

Go behind the scenes with the cast and director of NEVER LET ME GO, as they discuss their affinity for Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, and how they brought it to the big screen. See NEVER LET ME GO, now in theaters!

[@Candigale]

The last scene truly sums it up. “We ALL complete (die). Maybe NONE of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough TIME....” I think, at some point, in everyone’s life, we wonder why we are here, and at another time, we all feel we didn’t get enough time, or wasted the time given to us. It’s very simplistic, but powerful as well. Absolutely beautiful story. ✌️

[@sangar197]

Ohhh that's awesome short analysis

[@Candigale]

@@sangar197 thank you 🙏

[@noelmajers6369]

Congratulations on the Nobel Prize, Mr. Ishiguro !

[@clemencymorgan1098]

They don't runaway because the book is a microcosm of life and the journey to death. Its a metaphor saying that we cant runaway from death, you cant take the film so literal, read the book and you will understand more

[@cbjgirl23]

I love this comment

[@mikebasil4832]

Very well said. Thank you.

[@nelaasavic2030]

I watched movie 3 times before I read a book. I was so confused after watch movie. But book really make you see clearer picture. I will love one day to read original book aka on english.

[@elizagreen9103]

They've never known anything else its their entire life, they don't have parents or families where would they go? It's unimaginable to them.

[@poweredbyinfinity]

it's meant to be more similar to a Japanese society, which is one of Ishiguro's influences. They wouldn't run away because although they found it to be a terrible thing, they had a distinct sense of belonging and being a cog in a big machine. They tried to appeal to Madame, but other than that, what else could they do? They hadn't been socialised as they had spent all their life in Hailsham and the Cottages, no idea of 'running away' had ever even been explained to them. :)

[@mohammedal-aradi2092]

For me part of the movie is about how people/society/parents....etc shape the lives of young children to be what is expected of them to be without given further choice or will, which would recreate the cycle again for their children and so on.... the movie and the writer are brilliant

[@BlueHourSky]

hauntingly beautiful novel, and equally cinematically powerful on film.

[@justemz9128]

This movie is so depressing. I can't stop crying before even tho i don't really understand the story. But now after re watching it i understand it even better now. And it's even more sad. 😭😭😭😭😭

[@raja2793]

There are plenty of people out there who don't run away from situations they face, and end up sticking to the "duty" they are supposed to fulfill/ do

[@catharinebevona6361]

They would never run away from their fate. In a way they are like many slaves in pre-Civil War America. Except for a few like Harriet Tudman and Toby (Kunta Kinte) none ever attempted to run away. A system was in place which horribly punished run-aways' with beatings, mutilation and possibly death. A renegade slave would have no food, support system or shelter. In many cases slaves (and even former slaves post emancipation) remained with their masters and mistresses. Mentally they probably felt it was safer than facing the unknown world off the plantation. Actually, in some cases the slaves shared the same blood as their masters since the master would sleep with and impregnate his female slaves'. That was shown on Roots with Kizzy and her master. Kizzy had a baby boy that way. In this movie "Never Let Me Go" the children are technically slaves who are grown as organ doners. Should any escape they would never be able to get a job or even welfare because they do not have any ID. They would simply be recaptured if they attempted that. The best an escapee would be able to manage would be to get employed under the grid which would be prostitution, becoming a day laborer or doing jobs no one else wants to do. That would be having to keep a lower profile than illegal immigrants. The escapee from such a system would live under fear of recapture for the rest of their lives. Maybe a lucky few might find shelter with people or an organization against the system (modern day abolitionists) in that society.

[@chalommm]

Keira Knightley's hair is so cute, those bangs! Yay can't wait to see this!

[@BeautyfulWorld95]

because it's suppose to reflect, even like humans, we cannot run away from death

[@starry0601]

Spiderman, Bill Weasley, and Sally Sparrow have come together. YES

[@AmaraEmme]

And Lizzie Bennett

[@minguyen2589]

watching this 10 years after the first times I watched it at 18yo definitely hits differently

[@emericcson123]

Whoa. 1:10-1:12...they all said it the exact same way, they tilted their heads/moved their bodies in the SAME EXACT WAY. That's just awesome. I love it. :)

[@puntoni]

Emily Erickson Hi

[@xxxChRiStInA2512xxx]

i cried so much when i watched this

[@MsGraciie13]

Younger Kathy looks just like Carey mulligan!

[@firestormlivingsolutions]

Is the society these characters live in really so different from our own?

[@joshsea2145]

Kevin Shinduke yes

[@AGrefski]

It's very similar. Every society has an underclass that we'd like to forget about. Or we'd like to do something to help the underclass, without losing the benefits they offer to our society.

[@WhiteSlift]

Yes, very.

[@monabostrom8357]

Thinking about this is the main takeaway from this book for me.

[@GlobalReigns]

best movie. ever

[@airjaff]

Such a floored storyline

[@discobutterfly]

Im a student studying this book; im curious, why do you think it is floored?

[@coltonkissock7130]

I got my mom and her friends to read this book for her book club. Ever since then my suggestions have been banned. 😕 Sorry for trying to bring something stimulating to the mix! The ending of the book felt like a punch in the stomach.

[@lovegc55]

@juujuubie lol in the island they were 3 years old , the oldest one was 7 n they lived a lie so when they found out they were clones they were like "what? im out of here", n here they knew they had to die one day, they knew that was their purpose so when ur told something from the day u were born u dont question it, n they didnt know other kind of life so why run away

[@stylishsid]

Kathy and Tommy at 4:03, heartbreaking

[@Zombiesnyder13]

Mark Romanek should make more movies

[@alexcora13]

I also think "Why wouldn't they run away?" ...But only because I just finished the book and cant stop bawling, lol

[@soulpwner]

@cfish3r Because he was intending for the story to be genuine. It's fascinating and sad how much we as humans are willing to put up with.

[@reviewpodcasts5811]

I can’t understand why did Ishiguro allowed them to throw some crucial scenes in the book away. For example, last scene of the movie is a completely nonsense if you haven’t read the book, I can give pretty much examples like that. I think the most important problem is the movie didn’t be able to show us the dystrophy of the book. The movie is not elucidator enough to give us background informations of the Hailsham, cottages and the lives of carers and donors. Actually it’s a good movie, but I expected more details of the story. Because, the movie is very one-dimensional if we compare it to the book. So, I’m not a big fan of this movie, but I really am a huge fun of that book. In my opinion, the book is one of the best books that I’ve read.

[@amaxamon]

One of my favorite living writers! The Buried Giant is my favorite after RotD & NLMG. The movie didn't quite make it for me, tho. Interestingly, George Lucas explored many similar themes in the Clone Wars tv series.

[@RobotSantaClaus]

I read it and I still don't know why on Earth they don't try to run away... So don't call people idiots, when clearly it's you who's the idiot. Part of the point of the book is to have some mysteries, and this is one of them

[@jackheris687]

They can't. They have nowhere to run to.

[@backinorange]

@cfish3r because they're conditioned to accept their destiny since the they were born. We live in a 'freer' world, and so we're able to look beyond boundaries and rules.

[@waverlylim2402]

those little scanner/tracker bracelet on their wrists; or so i'd assume. i might be wrong though. :)

[@TolstoyPlastic]

This film wil destroy your weekend.... but you're be changed for the better forever...

[@KerlyRixio]

It's for a group work in english

[@KerlyRixio]

😥😥

[@Chendricks22]

Tommy's clone was spiderman

[@ayaanhussein1157]

Lol

[@danielahehe25]

The part where Kathy is looking at the magazine really confused me, cuz later Ruth says Tommy didn’t understand but Ruth did ??? SO IM CONFUSED someone explain plzzzz

[@alankritadatt3115]

Kathy was looking at the magazines as she thought that she was the clone of a prostitute or a sex worker because of her "abnormal" sexual urges. Ruth just thought that she was lonely and didn't have any sexual experiences so she was curious about how it worked. Only Tommy understood that kathy was looking for her original. In the movie at least. The book is a bit different.

[@ashley7858]

I really wished they interviewed Charlie Rowe in the "working together" video....i mean they interviewed Ella and Izzy, then why didn't they interview Charlie!?

[@neheelmk4713]

Is there have any school like hailsham?

[@allison205]

because they have chips implanted in their wrists

[@therealGLAD]

@katadelaide if they take them off do they die

[@حسينمحمد-ح8ح6ص]

هل هاذة قصة حقيقة

[@averagejoereviews1293]

Exactly. It's that simple! They could just up and gtfo, it's not like they have them in cages or have tracking chips embedded in their brains, or have pictures of every single clone... it doesn't make sense

[@juditK2007]

@bunozen1 Couldn't agree more. Possibly the worst movie I ever saw. The camerawork was beautiful though you have to give it that but the whole story is incredibly (in every sense of the word) awful. The movie itself is not bad, good actors, nice images, etc. but that story is just horrible. Horribly bad quality vise.

[@gradetrend8138]

I agree I didn't care for the story

[@jackheris687]

The book is regarded as the best book of the decade.

[@bunozen1]

What the heck? What a awful movie! So depressing. I got a headache! It was the most pathetic movie I've ever seen! They had no will to live, totally passive. I got so irritated with this "so-called" movie. What a waste of my time!

[@gradetrend8138]

I agree, a sick society who wants to watch that

[@alicechow2860]

@@gradetrend8138clearly everyone but you lol. This book won the Nobel prize…

[@KevinBeatson]

why didn't they run away???? are you missing he point or what