Never Let Me Go - It Won't Happen, I Guess.

 (2010) ★★★☆☆

In 'Never Let Me Go', some kids are not deemed humans but only creatures brought up to donate their organs (they call it completion) for others to live over 100. The more completions they can achieve, the more meaningful their lives will be. That's what they're taught to believe in. Most of them however, can barely make it through the third completion. Some even die on their first. It's supposed to be heartwrenching, but I find it pretty ridiculous.

Just because they have no parents doesn't mean they're not humans. Just because we think they have no soul doesn't mean they must die for us. Frankly I'd rather die than kill them by taking away their organs just to live a few years longer. Nowadays, we can sign a paper promising to give away our organs to those in need after we die. In the film, they take away donors' organs while they're still alive. That's ruthless, isn't it? What seems more ruthless is, donors are allowed to go around, to read, learn and grow, to develop feelings for each other, to have sex, to hope for the deferral that's in fact nothing but a lie, but there's no way for them to turn their destiny that is, they must all complete no matter what.

This is not a sci-fi film though it has a sci-fi backdrop. It's a love story with a pretty sad theme: love, friendship and stuff are no longer important when selfishness has pushed us to another level of insanity. If things like that really happened, the end of us, I guess, would be just around the corner.