Watched "never let me go" again after almost a decade, although been listening to the beautiful and haunting Rachel Portman's movie score endless time during all these years, I must say this is one powerful movie and highly underrated one but still after all these years the movie leaves an impact and forces one to ponder about life... The effect produced by the excellent music and the scenes is really moving, simply sublime...
What gets me about this film is that the children have no parents, and are controlled by the state, yet they have hope and are capable of love. The fact that they are able to accept and make the most of their fate makes the film even more moving.
can't stop thinking about the movie...So amasing,still without breath and open eyes ,still thinking ,rachel Portman did her job woooow with music ...so so soooo goog!!!
I really dislike when people try to intellectualize a movie. Just go with the premise whether it is absurd or realistic. As for the music...Ahhhh...No one moves me like Rachel Portman. She has found what moves my heart and soul, and for that I thank her. Her music brings tears to my eyes, and makes my soul ache...These are the emotions I live for.....
I have watched this moving film numerous times. For me, it is a very powerful statement about unfounded prejudice and the extreme agony it inflicts. The final 10 minutes of the film (from when Kathy & Tommy visit Madame) drive that pain through the heart of so many viewers. Kathy's final remarks are bittersweet as she recalls her pleasures and anticipates her own death.
Beautiful song for a beautiful film. The acting was superb and the storyline was somber yet endearing. In the end we all feel we have not had enough time. This is so true. It does not matter if you die at 25 or 95. There is always more life we feel we needed to live.
In response to Schnurpselbacke1 - We both see the clones being treated as soulless creatures. You don't believe that world could have existed in that time period. The possibility of its existence does not matter to me. Because the lesson is about prejudice and the pain and suffering it can inflict. A beautiful movie that deserves much more attention.
@Junipa007 The characters don't run away because they accept their fate, because physically there seem to be nothing to stop them escaping, but the point about it, is that these people don't seem to want to escape. It doesn't occurred to them because there is nowhere to run away to. That's why I think the story is so unique, because these three character are all humans and got particular human emotions, they have the ability to love and yet, people call them creatures. :)
While I may not have completely grasped the meaning of the movie, that really doesn't matter to me. It was a beautiful and emotional movie, and it's up to you whether you want to delve deeper into it.
"The blinding problem with this otherwise compelling story is the total disregard of any addressing of the larger civil rights issues that would never allow such a public practice to exist in today's world." Your home, my home, all of our homes are full of cheap products made by slave and political prison labor in China. The US Congress holds sessions in a building built by slave labor. Income disparity is higher than ever, CEOS of companies who destroyed the economy through illegal means are not serving time, they're getting record bonuses after being bailed out by taxpayers. These same taxpayers are being told they have to retire later and get less, get less healthcare, have a smaller safety net in order to pay for it all. Keep kidding yourself. Never Let Me Go was about THIS world. The one we live in now.
@hova1705 well said. the uplifting part of the score around 7 min mark the feeling when they reunite and then after when they complete just brings out the depressing emotions.
The fascinating thing about film scores i that when you're listening to them they wake the emotions you were having while watching the film. This is why people who probably have not watch the film might not perceive the score as we do.
As artist, Ms. Portman's canvas may sometimes be filled with varying shades of gray pigment, but it is never devoid of feeling, experience, and understanding.
I'm sorry, but I have to tell you that I disagree with your point of view on the film. I think that the fact that Never Let Me Go shows you this completely strange and cruel dystopia makes you think about things that happen in ordinary life. It made me reflect on mine, and I think that more people will agree...
I don't see anything implausible here. We routinely sacrifice healthy young adults for questionable military adventures, society allows this to exist in today's world without much resistance. The difference between this reality and Ishiguru's fiction is that the sacrifices he depicts unquestionably help others while those of soldiers more often than not turn out to be pointless. As far as eloping is concerned, some Americans did flee to Canada during the Vietnam war but many just gave in and got killed. How is this any different?
Science fiction transcends mere entertainment and becomes true literature when it serves as a both a mirror to current human behavior, and a magnifying glass, showing us with exaggerated detail what social horrors we are creating for tomorrow with today's bad decisions. There is no finer type of science fiction, and it does not need to be propped up by the "substantiated" limits of current scientific knowledge.
Geez... if you hated the movie and disliked Rachel Portman's score so much, who on earth did you put it up? Yeah it is in her comfort zone, but what is wrong with that? One of my favorite composers - John Williams - has been doing that for decades and no one derides him. They lob Oscars at him. The soundtrack is beautiful, just let it go and enjoy it. And yes, the movie was ludicris in its total acceptance of these children as nothing more than veal.
The movie was ludicrous in its acceptance of the children as nothing more than veal? Ludicrous (a better word would be despicable) is the NOT the position of the film, but of the society depicted in the film, a society which chooses to perpetuate the cruel practice of creating clones of human beings to be harvested for their organs. Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of the novel, is not saying that it is OK for these children to be treated like farm animals; quite the contrary.
To those who ask why the clones don't try to escape, I would just like to point out how easily people internalize the values of the society. Just observe how many women in different countries in this world willingly (even devoutly!) accept second rate status in the society. If you've learnt to treasure your own value, wonderful. But this concept has to be learnt.
We are what we know. We fill our story in-between the lines already written. It is natural to seek to belong. Humanity a mix of cruelty and love, but is only in the children we find innocence...
The track is beautiful...but i cant help but get a strange uncomfortable feeling in my tummy. The movie was somewhat eerie in a way, still lovely though.
Ishiguro imagined a scenario where biotechnology and cloning were the life changing advances made in the post WW2 era rather than than the nuclear age where extinction hangs on the will of a few world leaders. In Ishiguro's thinking, the nuclear " Sword of Damocles" that hangs over our heads was as unimaginable to people of the 1930's as cloning for spare parts. After all, as a people we have a long history of dehumanizing slaves or our enemies in war . This allows us to sleep at night.
~ This Movie is parallel to the Movie "The Island". Scarlett Johansson stars in this Movie. The plot is the same. Living people donate their DNA to a Company that clones that exact person, thus, needing a transplant.~~~Action director Michael Bay delivers a striking look at a strange world of the future in this sci-fi action drama. Midway through the 21st century, Lincoln Six Echo lives in a confined indoor community after ongoing abuse of the Earth has rendered most of the planet uninhabitable. One of the only places in the outside world still capable of sustaining life is an idyllic island where citizens are chosen to live through a lottery. Or at least that's what Lincoln and his fellow citizens are taught to believe. The truth is that Lincoln, like everyone he knows, is actually a clone who is kept under wraps to provide needed organs when the person who supplied his or her DNA falls ill. When he becomes aware that his existence is a fraud, Lincoln escapes to the outside world with a fellow clone, Jordan Two Delta, though the powers that are determined to see that no one gets away alive.
well. But why criticise a movie just because it doesn't comply with our reality? If we take it as sth that has to be in tune with the world as we know it, sure, it does seem ludicrous, this whole donor scheme. But I actually think movies are allowed to present an alternative reality, and we shouldn't approach them just as we approach the real world. And if you enter this other reality, the inner reality of the film, for just the one hour, it's really a very moving and exceptional experience.
I read the description and found it rather rosetinted in its view of society. I mean, that kind of stuff has ALREADY happened. They weren't test-tube babies either.
The postulate that law has anything to do with moral philosophy is of course the flaw in argument of Schnurpselbacke1 that this film premise would be implausible. The pogroms of history, the slave trade were in their own time and states legal activities. In the UK we imprisoned gay men . In Ireland even up til this century young women were incarcerated for having children out of wedlock. The law is the law. "We wouldn't want to go back to the days of cancer would we." says the head of Hailsham
i never understood why didnt escape to another country or something. I mean its not like they were policed around the clock (except for those hand bracelets).
O filme deixa muitíssimo a desejar e até mesmo engana-nos o seu trailer, ao nos mostrar uma fotografia belíssima, o que nos remete a supor que seja um filme de drama e amor, entretanto, a ficção é de tamanha mediocridade, posto que, agressiva, que sequer deixa-nos espaço para admirarmos a trama romântica. Ficam em destaque a trilha de Rachel, que como sempre é de uma maestria contemporânea de poucos e a fotografia.
Watched "never let me go" again after almost a decade, although been listening to the beautiful and haunting Rachel Portman's movie score endless time during all these years, I must say this is one powerful movie and highly underrated one but still after all these years the movie leaves an impact and forces one to ponder about life... The effect produced by the excellent music and the scenes is really moving, simply sublime...
plus characters are very thoughtfully selected. i also watched in 2010 but now i tremble to watch it again plus soundtrack is also so soulful.
@hassanyahub4111
@vibrant461 j'ai les mêmes ressentis que vous deux en tout point
Et pour être sincère c'est réconfortant ce partage ✨
@@saminabel yes definitely, thanks
@@hassanayub4111 c'est moi qui vous remercie de l'éloquence de vos propos dans votre commentaire 😌
@@saminabel thank you so much
What gets me about this film is that the children have no parents, and are controlled by the state, yet they have hope and are capable of love. The fact that they are able to accept and make the most of their fate makes the film even more moving.
This soundtrack is absolutely stunning.A human struggling with depression and being alive.That's how I see it.
Σας ευχαριστουμε για αυτην την καταπληκτικη μελωδια η μουσικη σας θεραπευει την ψυχη να ειστε παντα καλα να δημιουργειτε ομορφα κομματια❤
best film score I've ever heard. So deep and gives meaning to the movie itself.
Go ASEAN!
can't stop thinking about the movie...So amasing,still without breath and open eyes ,still thinking ,rachel Portman did her job woooow with music ...so so soooo goog!!!
the most beautiful music ever made
I really dislike when people try to intellectualize a movie. Just go with the premise whether it is absurd or realistic. As for the music...Ahhhh...No one moves me like Rachel Portman. She has found what moves my heart and soul, and for that I thank her. Her music brings tears to my eyes, and makes my soul ache...These are the emotions I live for.....
I have watched this moving film numerous times. For me, it is a very powerful statement about unfounded prejudice and the extreme agony it inflicts. The final 10 minutes of the film (from when Kathy & Tommy visit Madame) drive that pain through the heart of so many viewers. Kathy's final remarks are bittersweet as she recalls her pleasures and anticipates her own death.
The strings are amazing!! I love how some pitches sound off but then they draw you back in to only bring it back up again. Very edgy I love it.
Beautiful song for a beautiful film. The acting was superb and the storyline was somber yet endearing. In the end we all feel we have not had enough time. This is so true. It does not matter if you die at 25 or 95. There is always more life we feel we needed to live.
There always comes a point where Rachel Portman's music makes me swoon.
Amazing
Beautiful film score
it stirs you on a soul level
Without seeing the movie
I find her music score simply beautiful. If you listen to the Munich Radio Orchestra it hits you being
This is sublime.
The music is beautiful ♥
very beautiful song
In response to Schnurpselbacke1 - We both see the clones being treated as soulless creatures. You don't believe that world could have existed in that time period. The possibility of its existence does not matter to me. Because the lesson is about prejudice and the pain and suffering it can inflict. A beautiful movie that deserves much more attention.
There are some feelings which we just cannot define while watching this movie ...
What a movie !!
Beautiful music
@Junipa007 The characters don't run away because they accept their fate, because physically there seem to be nothing to stop them escaping, but the point about it, is that these people don't seem to want to escape. It doesn't occurred to them because there is nowhere to run away to.
That's why I think the story is so unique, because these three character are all humans and got particular human emotions, they have the ability to love and yet, people call them creatures. :)
Beautiful..
While I may not have completely grasped the meaning of the movie,
that really doesn't matter to me.
It was a beautiful and emotional movie, and it's up to you whether you want to delve deeper into it.
"The blinding problem with this otherwise compelling story is the total disregard of any addressing of the larger civil rights issues that would never allow such a public practice to exist in today's world."
Your home, my home, all of our homes are full of cheap products made by slave and political prison labor in China.
The US Congress holds sessions in a building built by slave labor.
Income disparity is higher than ever, CEOS of companies who destroyed the economy through illegal means are not serving time, they're getting record bonuses after being bailed out by taxpayers. These same taxpayers are being told they have to retire later and get less, get less healthcare, have a smaller safety net in order to pay for it all.
Keep kidding yourself.
Never Let Me Go was about THIS world. The one we live in now.
@hova1705 well said. the uplifting part of the score around 7 min mark the feeling when they reunite and then after when they complete just brings out the depressing emotions.
Love this movie ♡
The fascinating thing about film scores i that when you're listening to them they wake the emotions you were having while watching the film. This is why people who probably have not watch the film might not perceive the score as we do.
As artist, Ms. Portman's canvas may sometimes be filled with varying shades of gray pigment, but it is never devoid of feeling, experience, and understanding.
stunning
Did anyone else read the description and wonder why it was so negative about such beautiful works of art? :/
I'm sorry, but I have to tell you that I disagree with your point of view on the film. I think that the fact that Never Let Me Go shows you this completely strange and cruel dystopia makes you think about things that happen in ordinary life. It made me reflect on mine, and I think that more people will agree...
I don't see anything implausible here. We routinely sacrifice healthy young adults for questionable military adventures, society allows this to exist in today's world without much resistance. The difference between this reality and Ishiguru's fiction is that the sacrifices he depicts unquestionably help others while those of soldiers more often than not turn out to be pointless. As far as eloping is concerned, some Americans did flee to Canada during the Vietnam war but many just gave in and got killed. How is this any different?
I was with you until you used the word "eloping."
Science fiction transcends mere entertainment and becomes true literature when it serves as a both a mirror to current human behavior, and a magnifying glass, showing us with exaggerated detail what social horrors we are creating for tomorrow with today's bad decisions. There is no finer type of science fiction, and it does not need to be propped up by the "substantiated" limits of current scientific knowledge.
+Zhara umNikko Just what are you trying to say ? (In english please ). Just who do you think your addressing , this is you tube not the Harvard Club.
Her/his statement is quite understandable
***** Yea right I'm not sure he even knows what he's saying . Come back to earth
Geez... if you hated the movie and disliked Rachel Portman's score so much, who on earth did you put it up? Yeah it is in her comfort zone, but what is wrong with that? One of my favorite composers - John Williams - has been doing that for decades and no one derides him. They lob Oscars at him. The soundtrack is beautiful, just let it go and enjoy it. And yes, the movie was ludicris in its total acceptance of these children as nothing more than veal.
The movie was ludicrous in its acceptance of the children as nothing more than veal? Ludicrous (a better word would be despicable) is the NOT the position of the film, but of the society depicted in the film, a society which chooses to perpetuate the cruel practice of creating clones of human beings to be harvested for their organs. Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of the novel, is not saying that it is OK for these children to be treated like farm animals; quite the contrary.
magnificent
To those who ask why the clones don't try to escape, I would just like to point out how easily people internalize the values of the society. Just observe how many women in different countries in this world willingly (even devoutly!) accept second rate status in the society. If you've learnt to treasure your own value, wonderful. But this concept has to be learnt.
We are what we know. We fill our story in-between the lines already written. It is natural to seek to belong. Humanity a mix of cruelty and love, but is only in the children we find innocence...
@scifugitive2 I have a feeling the description was copied and pasted from elsewhere, but I agree.
How and where can I find the sheet music for this particular song? I've had no such luck in locating it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The track is beautiful...but i cant help but get a strange uncomfortable feeling in my tummy. The movie was somewhat eerie in a way, still lovely though.
I love love this song....great for reading period novels to but what is the name of this particular one?
Does anyone know where that lake at 4:05 is? It's absolutely stunning.
Ishiguro imagined a scenario where biotechnology and cloning were the life changing advances made in the post WW2 era rather than than the nuclear age where extinction hangs on the will of a few world leaders. In Ishiguro's thinking, the nuclear " Sword of Damocles" that hangs over our heads was as unimaginable to people of the 1930's as cloning for spare parts. After all, as a people we have a long history of dehumanizing slaves or our enemies in war . This allows us to sleep at night.
This reminds me of Tristan and Iseult.
i love this longer version with all the themes combined. Did youtube take it off? if so just keep putting it back on.
Can u please send me this Track .. it's soo beautiful *_*
I think i learned about youtube to mp3 converter right about that time when you wrote your comment, maybe earlier.
@koolkatkimina, if you look at the bottom of the desciption, then you´ll discover the source-link for the text. ;-)
No doubt
Is that a violin and cello or viola and cello?
~ This Movie is parallel to the Movie "The Island". Scarlett Johansson stars in this Movie. The plot is the same. Living people donate their DNA to a Company that clones that exact person, thus, needing a transplant.~~~Action director Michael Bay delivers a striking look at a strange world of the future in this sci-fi action drama. Midway through the 21st century, Lincoln Six Echo lives in a confined indoor community after ongoing abuse of the Earth has rendered most of the planet uninhabitable. One of the only places in the outside world still capable of sustaining life is an idyllic island where citizens are chosen to live through a lottery. Or at least that's what Lincoln and his fellow citizens are taught to believe. The truth is that Lincoln, like everyone he knows, is actually a clone who is kept under wraps to provide needed organs when the person who supplied his or her DNA falls ill. When he becomes aware that his existence is a fraud, Lincoln escapes to the outside world with a fellow clone, Jordan Two Delta, though the powers that are determined to see that no one gets away alive.
how to explain emotions ? just listen
well. But why criticise a movie just because it doesn't comply with our reality? If we take it as sth that has to be in tune with the world as we know it, sure, it does seem ludicrous, this whole donor scheme. But I actually think movies are allowed to present an alternative reality, and we shouldn't approach them just as we approach the real world. And if you enter this other reality, the inner reality of the film, for just the one hour, it's really a very moving and exceptional experience.
I read the description and found it rather rosetinted in its view of society. I mean, that kind of stuff has ALREADY happened. They weren't test-tube babies either.
❤❤
The postulate that law has anything to do with moral philosophy is of course the flaw in argument of Schnurpselbacke1 that this film premise would be implausible. The pogroms of history, the slave trade were in their own time and states legal activities. In the UK we imprisoned gay men . In Ireland even up til this century young women were incarcerated for having children out of wedlock. The law is the law. "We wouldn't want to go back to the days of cancer would we." says the head of Hailsham
@msstarlover This is not a song...no one is singing.
i never understood why didnt escape to another country or something. I mean its not like they were policed around the clock (except for those hand bracelets).
miraculous
O filme deixa muitíssimo a desejar e até mesmo engana-nos o seu trailer, ao nos mostrar uma fotografia belíssima, o que nos remete a supor que seja um filme de drama e amor, entretanto, a ficção é de tamanha mediocridade, posto que, agressiva, que sequer deixa-nos espaço para admirarmos a trama romântica. Ficam em destaque a trilha de Rachel, que como sempre é de uma maestria contemporânea de poucos e a fotografia.
such a depressing movie
B
so far..cartoonish.