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I’ve never been a fan of the supernatural but the
buzz around this movie back in 2010 intrigued me sufficiently to want to see I would change
my mind. The story from the best selling
novel that almost won Kazuo Ishiguro the Booker Prize, is about children who
are reared with the sole purpose in their lives of becoming organ donors so
that other people can live beyond 100 years old. More specifically it’s about 3 in particular
Kathy, Tommy & Ruth who we first meet as children at a rather austere and
scary Boarding School where they are indoctrinated with their predestined
futures. Love is never meant to be part
of the ‘plan’ so when Cathy falls in love with Tommy much to the chagrin of
Ruth who steals him away to become her boyfriend it throws mire than spanner un
the works.
We later meet the three again when they are now grown up
and in the process of making their ‘donations’ which will inevitably lea to
their deaths, known much nicer as ‘completions’, except for Cathy who has
become a ‘carer’ who looks after others like them. Ruth confesses up about stealing Tommy's
affections in the hope that now Cathy and he can be together they can apply for
a ‘referral’ which will delay the donations a while so that they can have a
life together as lovers.
The first part of this movie dragged at such a slow
pace I was bored enough to start imagining Charlotte Rampling, the elderly prim
headmistress Miss Emily, as she was back in the 60’s in her scant Nazi uniform
in 'The Night Porter' … but I digress. But the pace quickened, and so did my
interest as the real story unfolded, and by the end I was actually interested on
what happened to all three of them.
Two fine Brit actors in the leads helped. Cathy was
played by Carey Mulligan who the camera loves as much as me; Tommy by Andrew
Garfield (about to hit the big time with the lead in Spiderman). Ruth was played by my nemesis Keira Knightly
who irritates me consistently as much as Catherine Zeta-Jones (yes, that
bad!), so the less said about her the better.
