'Never Let Me Go' is Gripping and Moving

I have never watched any movie like "Never Let Me Go" before. It was gripping and moving.

It's an adaptation of a novel of the same title which I first heard before watching the film but never got the chance to read it. Though books are complete and original, I still prefer watching the movie version over reading it or sometimes I read the book after watching the film then watch it again after finishing it. It's nice to see how things come to life in a movie. I'm enjoying the beautiful scoring that makes each scene more intense and I really admire the actors in it while portraying the role.

Just a heads up, the movie is not made out of eye-popping special effects, no action or high-octane scenes but purely drama about life, love and letting go presented uniquely in a different situation. 'Never Let Me Go' is a sci-fi, romantic - drama that is set in 1970s in England. It's a tale of three people who learned to live their lives according to what they were raised for. Created out of science and eventually would die for it. While most of us grow up freely with hopes and dreams of what we want to be, Kathy, Ruth, Tommy and the rest of the students of Hailsham are deprived with it. They were raised to be donors (of their body parts). They were clones of their originals (this is far from clone-movie of Michael Bay's 'The Island' by the way) that got only a lifespan up to four donations. With little knowledge on how it came to be they moved on without questions. The three were inseparable, Ruth and Tommy became lovers but Kathy is secretly into him. What Kathy didn't know that Tommy had been in love with her ever since they were young. After studying in Hailsham, the three were exposed to real world with normal people but still bind with the rules. They soon learned about the Deferral where donation could be put back to three or four years and donors would have the chance to live together normally as long as they can prove that they are really in love with each other. And with this, the three lives became more interwoven, and whose gonna end up with whom? that's the twist of the story. The end would actually determine if you really like the movie or not. In my case, the ending was just fine, I'd prefer it that way.

It was beautifully acted and Romanek's way of transitioning from one scene to another was pretty smooth. The scoring was simple but really played off (I always look into film's scoring, it's the most important component next to acting as it brings life to the film as whole). The song Never Let Me Go that was played several times in the film which obviously where the movie title based from, was just in tune with one of the most intense scenes in the film (apparently not just local Filipino films are using the song title in the film as its movie title).

Starred by two of the young and talented British actresses, Oscar Best Actress nominees Carey Mulligan (An Education, Wallstreet: Money Never Sleeps ) as Kathy and Kiera Knightly (Pride and Prejudice, Pirates of Caribbean Trilogy) as Ruth with new comer Andrew Garfield (The Social Network,New Spiderman Movie) and based from the novel of Kazuo Ishuguro and directed by Mark Romanek, 'Never Let Me Go' will show you that sometimes no matter how hard it is, letting go is just the only way. It's really up to us on how to make each and every second we live worthwhile, especially with the ones we love.