![]() ![]() The film Never Let Me Go stars Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, and Keira Knightley. Were there really schools such as Hailsham, where every student was not just an orphan, but some kind of outcast? If so, why did this happen? Is it still happening today? But ultimately the scope and ambition of the book prove too big for the big screen.īefore we even get to page one, Ishiguro lays a trap by setting the book in “England, late 1990s.” It won’t be clear for many chapters that we’re in a very different nineties from the flannel shirt and dial-up internet connection era we knew and loved, and so the reader is forced to consider some disturbing possibilities. ![]() ![]() To its credit, Mark Romanek’s 2010 film makes a game effort, convincingly capturing the dormitories and cottages that comprise the novel’s world. There’s a lot going on, both on the surface and beneath, and a reader couldn’t be faulted for thinking, “this will never become a movie.” Well, it did. Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go is both an unsettling allegory of systemic oppression, and an intimate portrait of three young people negotiating an impossible living situation. ![]() In each entry I’ll be comparing a contemporary novel to its film adaptation. This is the first in a series of posts entitled 21st Century Fiction on Screen. ![]()
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