{"id":18,"date":"2011-02-19T22:37:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T22:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-02-19T22:37:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T22:37:41","slug":"never-let-me-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/02\/19\/never-let-me-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Let Me Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/neverletmego.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19\" title=\"neverletmego\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/neverletmego-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/neverletmego-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/neverletmego.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saw &#8220;Never Let Me Go&#8221; this evening. The word &#8216;haunting&#8217; would be appropriate. Beautiful cinematography, fine acting, implausible but compelling narrative. Worth seeing.<\/p>\n<p>The film is set in an alternative reality that is not, I think, meant to be plausible but is rather a backdrop for a poetic interplay of emotions. It is a story of cloned humans raised to be organ donors. A role that is, oddly, accepted without question.<\/p>\n<p>I saw initially that world as implausible because its premise seems morally unsustainable in that no society could permit itself to live at the expense of a &#8216;donor&#8217; caste. Then I remembered that our own societies support oppressive dictatorships and invade other countries to secure resources for us at the expense of the populations of those countries.<\/p>\n<p>The film does not explain the mechanics of oppression involved in maintaining the donor caste. It focuses entirely on the tragedy of the individuals portrayed. To paraphrase a certain Dr McCoy: &#8220;It&#8217;s science fiction Jim, but not as we know it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw &#8220;Never Let Me Go&#8221; this evening. The word &#8216;haunting&#8217; would be appropriate. Beautiful cinematography, fine acting, implausible but compelling narrative. Worth seeing. The film is set in an alternative reality that is not, I think, meant to be plausible but is rather a backdrop for a poetic interplay of emotions. It is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/02\/19\/never-let-me-go\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}