Introduction
Never Let Me Go (2010) is Mark Romanek’s film adaptation of the cognominal novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Similar to any other dystopian plot, it seeks to answer existential questions, in other words, those regarding the possibility for human beings to make a choice and be responsible for it. At first sight, the story that the artists tell seems to illustrate the impossibility of choosing the own way, but a closer examination can provide an opposite view.
The Never Let Me Go Film
In one concern, the central idea of the work under review is that the fate is predetermined; the main characters are bound to donate their organs to other people to prolong the lives of those. Furthermore, in the closing scene, one of the protagonists, Kathy, concludes that every human being dies eventually regardless of his or her choice (Romanek, 2010). The latter, therefore, is senseless because it does not change anything, as it is possible to assume from the movie.
On the contrary, an essential nuance is that the protagonists of Never Let Me Go do not accept their destiny and look for ways to postpone it, although not avoid. Among those is becoming a so-called carer as well as, presumably, being in love (Romanek, 2010). Such behavior serves to show that people remain able to make their choice even it situations where this makes hardly any sense, which postulate actually is the fundamental of existential philosophy.
Conclusion
To summarize, the movie Never Let Me Go gives a negative answer to the question whether it is possible to take the ability to choose their own way from humans. Although the inevitability of death seems to make any choice senseless because they lead to the same outcome, the protagonists still try to find the possibility to postpone it. This shows that they remain responsible for their attitude to the situation, proving one of the statements that underlie the philosophy of existentialism.
Reference
Romanek, M. (2010). Never let me go [Film]. Web.