Book and Film Discussion: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Book: Never Let Me Go (2005, Kazuo Ishiguro) Movie: Never Let Me Go (2010, Mark Romanek)

Never Let Me Go takes place in a dystopian version of late 1990s England, where the lives of ordinary citizens are prolonged through a state-sanctioned program of human cloning. Through the coming-of-age story delivered elegantly in its simplicity, we face the questions of unintended consequences of science, exploitation and the nature of the human condition. The movie starring Carey Mulligan, is described by Roger Ebert as a movie about empathy, that relies on our ability to observe to understand what is implied, rather than spelled out.