Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

This weekend I went to see the movie, Never Let Me Go. It was a tearjerker. It hit home with the brevity of life and that we are all here for a purpose. It’s important to lead a fulfilling and rewarding life before we die. We should pursue our passion in life and what becomes will benefit the world after we die. Also, if you are unhappy in your life, then you need to do something to change it. I did not read the book yet, but I will. I hear it is better than the movie.

Never Let Me Go is a film based on the 2005 novel of the same name written by Kazuo Ishiguro. He also wrote, The Remains of the Day, which was also adapted into a film in 1993, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

Never Let Me Go premiered at the 37th annual Telluride Film Festival in September 2010 and received a positive response. The movie has since been screened at a number of festivals, including the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival as well as opening the 54th London Film Festival. It was distributed theatrically by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States on September 15, 2010, where it was given a limited release, playing at less than fifty theaters.

Kazuo was born in Japan and is considered one of the greatest contemporary writers of our time. He’s influenced by Japanese films, mostly by Yasujir? Ozu and Mikio Naruse, having set his first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, in Japan.