Society becomes better for it as life expectancy is 100+ but are the lives of the donors less valuable? This is a movie that asks you how to value human life and to think about whether we, even unknowingly, value some groups less than others. There is a touch of 1984 and The Chrysalids in this one. 7/10
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Later #39: a movie: ‘Never Let Me Go.’
This is a frighteningly realistic story told in a typically understated British way, led by an excellent cast including Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley. It is set at a time when the British Government establishes the ‘National Donor Program,’ where people are bred in ideal environments until they are old enough to donate their body parts, and did so until they ‘completed.’
Society becomes better for it as life expectancy is 100+ but are the lives of the donors less valuable? This is a movie that asks you how to value human life and to think about whether we, even unknowingly, value some groups less than others. There is a touch of 1984 and The Chrysalids in this one. 7/10
Society becomes better for it as life expectancy is 100+ but are the lives of the donors less valuable? This is a movie that asks you how to value human life and to think about whether we, even unknowingly, value some groups less than others. There is a touch of 1984 and The Chrysalids in this one. 7/10
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