Never Let Me Go.

No idea how this film turned up on the blog list as we can't remember the poster for it- we didn't recognise it and we weren't drunk when we made the list but somehow it ended up on the list so let's get to it.

Having read the cast list at least three times I spent the entire film managing to forget that the character of Thomas was Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man) and therefore spent ages looking at him thinking that he was really quite recognisable. All that I had managed to take in was that Keira Knightley was in this film (which was not intentional) and that she was actually good in it. I say that like it is surprising but seeing as how this film was made recently it shouldn't be surprising at all.

Based on the book of the same name and same plot, the cast line up includes those mentioned above and also Carey Mulligan (Drive, The Great Gatsby, An Education) and Sally Hawkins (Layer Cake, An Education,  Paddington). The film was generally received with positive reviews and it made a profit so it cannot be called a flop. This film is never going to be a blockbuster and it possibly is not likely to be someone's favourite film but it is a different film to many others (and possible all other films in my collection) and will always have that working for it. Working on the theory that medicine can make the kind of breakthrough which extends human lifespan to past 100 years, this film is about three clones who like so many others discover that they are 'doners' and will either die or have to keep giving up their organs as they become adults. It is a little weird but underneath it all it is a love triangle and the time and challenges faced between three childhood school friends. The saying that love conquers all... does it?