Never Let Me Go/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Nightmare Fuel: the whole thing is pretty chilling, especially the way they refer to a donor's death as "completing."
  • Utopia / Dystopia: Deconstructed. To us, the lives of the clones must seem pretty dystopic: no family, strict boarding schools, no ability to have children, donating organs then premature death. And they are conditioned to accept this as the only way of life, and that escape causes pain. However, as is Miss Emily's point at the end of the film, human are free of serious illness and live to over 100, which, from the audience's point of view, would usually be regarded as something of a utopian circumstance. Our perception of this world as good or bad is based solely around our protagonists.
  • Sci Fi Ghetto: Don't you dare call this book science fiction. Sure there are sci-fi elements, but that doesn't make it sci-fi. Why? Because sci-fi is for grubby basement dwellers, and really smart people like this, therefore it must be literature.
  • Tear Jerker: Is it ever...
    • And it's not only because of the characters themselves, but for the thousands of other clones they represent.
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