What DVD's are we Watching?

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Originally Posted by wolf

Never Let Me Go

I figured out the premise from watching the preview, but went ahead with watching the movie anyway, never read the book, unfortunately. Now when I do I think I'll lose some of the punch.

It was okay, but far from great ... not a lot happens, there's not a lot of suspense surrounding the reveal of THE BIG SECRET, and it lacked the amount of philosophical depth that could have made it interesting.

I read the book and decided I didn't want to see the film. Like everything I've read of Kazuo Ishiguro's, it was very well written, but all of the undercurrents (THE BIG SECRET) were awful. I read it about 10 years ago but I do remember liking When we were orphans alot. I read it at the same time as An Equal Music by Vikram Seth and remember thinking that there was something quite similar about them-possibly in the writing style...the way the prose was so beautifully put together that you just wanted to keep reading no matter what it said because the words fitted together so flawlessly.