Love In The Time Of Dystopia

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Most blogs on the internet are about something- lifestyle, food, reviews and so much more. So I've been thinking about this blog and I decided that I'd write about different movies.
Cinema and theater are such a powerful platforms for people to show and learn about different opinions on diverse subjects that are parts of our daily life.

I love watching movies and television series, so I thought I could write something useful here. It'll mostly be about my opinion on that particular movie and you may or may not agree with that. So if you have any different view I'd like you to comment and enlighten me with your opinions.


One of my all time favourite movie is 'Never Let Me Go'.

The movie is:
Directed by : Mark Romanek
Screenplay by : Alex Garland
Starring : Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightly, Andrew Garfield.
Based on :  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

About the film:

This 2010 British movie set in a dystopian alternate world is about the lives of three friends and their journey from childhood to early adulthood.
You can check out the IMDb page here ----  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1334260/
And you can check out the Wikipedia page here -----  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(2010_film)


What I liked about this film:

Movies set in alternate worlds with similar kind of realism always attract me. But before I watched this movie, I had no idea about its content or its dystopian set-up; I had just randomly picked up the DVD from my uncle’s collection one day. And I’m so glad I did.

This film is about three individuals who form this strong bond of friendship with each other when they are just kids in their boarding school called Hailsham.
In most of the sci-fi movies I’ve seen, there’s always a hero and a villain and it’s all about the fight between good and evil. But this one is so much different. This film doesn’t have a strong, punching-in-the-face hero or a dark, Machiavellian villain.But this movie never bashes about the evil of developing science.Rather it’s about the views of two types of human beings separated by a thin line of science and technology. The narrator of this story, Kathy(Carey Mulligan), starts her story by talking about her childhood at Hailsham at the late 1970s with her friends Tommy(Andrew Garfield) and Ruth(Keira Knightly). All the children at the boarding school have a particular purpose which they are later made aware of.

This purpose itself shocks the MORAL and ETHICAL grounds of humanity and by the time this movie got over, I was left with a wave of emotions. Throughout the movie, there were so many questioned raised about soul and purpose in life and meaning of love and friendship; but at the end all of them were answered by the most simplified truth, i.e “we all complete”.

It might seem like a movie about the pain and sadness we see through the eyes of the narrator, but after it finished, I honestly felt more alive. It was the only thing I could talk about for days. I kind of forced my sister to watch it so that I could discuss the film with another person. It breaks you and you love it. It gives you a purpose to hold on to yourself and tells you not give up on hope and love because after all, these are the things that truly matter.

I'm not very good at reviewing movies or books. I just wrote about my feelings after I had watched the movie. So its not a review or anything. You can go to the given links to read the plot and synopsis. I didn't want to spoil anything about the movie so I couldn't write more about the characters.
I highly recommend this movie for everyone, doesn't matter if you are going through a high time in your life or a low one. Watch it if you can. I had first seen it about 3 years ago and I can still feel the same overwhelming emotions I had felt then, every time I talk about it.

If you want you can leave a comment about your views on this movie. And also if you know about similar kinds of movies, please suggest.

Thank you for reading.
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BYE!