7/7/2023 0 Comments Never let me go summaryThe society wants these Donors for one purpose and doesn't want to waste resources on them for any other. The teachers at Hailsham aren't precisely progressives in the John Dewey tradition, but the school is the last one that still encourages the children at all. If you get my heart, I don't want you moping around about me. If you are about to get someone's heart, don't you tend to objectify the source? You should. But it doesn't suit the convenience of the larger society to think of them in that way. They were raised at Hailsham, a progressive boarding school for Donors: progressive in the sense that it's an experiment based on the possibility that these test-tube babies are real human beings. They are Kathy, Tommy and Ruth, played in their 20s by Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley. We meet three Donor children, first when young and then later. Those who grow out of that become adults, a status not always achieved by their parents. One of the most dangerous concepts of human society is that children believe what they are told. They live within a closed world whose value system takes pride in how often and successfully they have donated. In the film, it's clear to us but not, up to a certain point, to the children. When I read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, the Donors' purpose was left murky until midway through the book.
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