From what I can tell, it centers around a normal early turn of the century english boarding school. Only there's these weird little technological things like wrist implants that the kids scan on every door frame they walk by.
\\Well it looks intense. You know what? Fuck it. I wikipediaed it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go. Don't read it if you don't like spoilers. Do if you do.
It's about clones and the the terrible realization of being one, specifically used for harvesting organs. The movie looks intense and now that I told you that, watch it again and just feel the pain. I don't think I'll read the book. Books like that, like Virginia Woolf's The Waves is just the most depressing shit. Talk about wanting to smoke a cigarette. It just makes me... I don't know what.
It's like there's all this noise. Actually, right now it's pretty quiet in my room at 2am. but the hum of my laptop, the wisps of cars in the distance moving by, the fan of my neighbor's AC unit. All this noise. All of it can be cut off in a split second. Just hit the switch and it's off. The things we take for granted, I think, are the things that are the most important. Those hums and whispers. Breaths and heartbeats, distant trains rolling by and clock ticks. This film trailer reminded me that anybody can turn off the switch on anybody else at any time. And that's scary. because you don't know when that's a-gonna be. and you don't know what happens afterward. Maybe you don't think it was enough time. Will that even matter at all? You hit the switch and it's off. Nobody cares about off switches because we're all busy caring about the on ones.
That's the truth.
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