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Never Let Me Go (2010)
Clearly not for everyone
While the movie certainly has some great acting the story leaves something.to be desired.
Fans of the absurd will probably like it, but it was not to my taste. I watched it because it was said to be a "dystopian future" type thing, but there is no explanation as to how it came to be, doesn't even touch upon the ethical implications for such an institution to exist, and it isn't questioned at all by its victims.
You need to take a lot for granted to be emotionally invested in the movie. You need to take for granted that the whole world was convinced it was a good idea to make and bring up children to become organ farms, you need to accept that those children cannot escape, will not attempt self-harm in any way and peacefully grow up to be 'donors' and then die while idly reflecting on their lives.
For me it seemed absolutely unreal that neither the children, or the teenagers have no reaction to being brought up exclusively to be donors. They never question it, never talk about it, never try to escape it.
Ultimately it tried to draw a parallel between their lives and the lives of those who are not brought into the world to be donors, but it clearly failed at that, and - for me at least - the whole point of it all is elusive.