'Never let me go' by Kazuo Ishiguro - the film!

[FreddoBaggyMac]

I read this book a couple of years ago and thought it was great (although it has to be said, bleak!) Anyway, I just watched the trailer for the film which is coming out and it looks pretty good. In fact I would go so far as to say it looks to be one of those films which might actually be BETTER than the book !!!!
Just from the trailer I can see I'm going to love the way it looks, all those autumnal colours and shabby chic flaking paint and people looking all beautiful in 1940's knitwear...
Is it just me or does anyone else like the look of it???

I liked teh book a lot but then I like Ishiguro.

I think a film might be too emotionally draining - I like a feelgood factor about a film - but I'll see.

Love the book to bits; worried about the film. After all, it has Keira in it, and she's awful.

oh no. I hate Knightly. I won't be watching it.

Totally agree, LOVED the book (picked it as 'my' read for our book group) and the film looks amazing. Might have to wait for the DVD though, don't like blubbing in the cinema and found myself welling up even at the trailer

Or perhaps there's a surprise Hollywood happy ending! Oooh that would make me cross.....

God, I'd be worried about the film too. The book is possibly just too strange and of-itself to work with film, especially a film that seems to relish beauty so much. But, on the other hand, the trailer did tug at me quite a bit.

I love Ishiguru. Perhaps my favourite contemporary writer.

I've read a few reviews and it's supposed to be good, don't think they've changed the ending. My DH hates Keira too but I don't mind her. I thought she was great in 'The Duchess'. I think she plays Ruth and she'll be good in the part imo.

Ooh - I lurved the book! I shall look out for this!

Ooh, looks OK actually. I love Ishiguro's books, they always leave me thinking about them for weeks afterwards because the narrators are so subjective and unreliable. Never Let Me Go is not an obvious choice to base a film on, but it seems like they've got the atmosphere right. NOT a fan of Keira Knightley either though, but adore Charlotte Rampling.

Yes, so profoundly unreliable that you start to feel that the reality the narrator depicts is unreliable too, constantly dissolving and reforming. And your activity as a reader is unreliable, just because you can't keep hold of something so indeterminate and yet you persist in reading as if you can keep hold of it.

So I suppose I would be frightened that the film would just have to exercise too much solidity, determinacy. Especially at the end.

I love Ishiguro too! The film does look a good recreation of the novel, but am I alone in thinking the trailer tells you a bit too much IYSWIM? I remember reading the book and very gradually beginning to understand what it was about and what Hailsham was. If I hadn't read it and I saw the trailer some of the revealing has already been done

I hope they don't change the ending. Though when I was reading the book, I kept hoping vainly there would be a happy-ish ending and that things would turn out ok, but of course increasingly realising that they wouldn't...

I actually like KK (I admit she was a bit 'wooden' early in her career, but remember she was very young and inexperienced) I think she's a good choice for this.

Agree it seems a bit weird to reveal pretty much everything in the trailer, when in the book the truth gradually unfolds as the characters themselves start to realise and understand.

Hated this book.

I am one of the few who loves KK though!

I think the trailer might not come across as so revealing if you don't know the story already.

Why did you hate it Belligerent?

I like KK too, and really don't get why she's so unpopular, apart from because she's beautiful and rich and famous of course The other actress in it, Carey Mulligan, is very good too imo, I loved 'An education'.

Can't really remember why I hated it tbh. I thought the characters were annoying and tbh I ended up just wanting to hurry them along to be 'farmed' as it were!

I hated Remains Of the Day too - but I think I am alone in this.

OOh.

The only Ishiguro I have managed to read is The Remains of the Day, which I loved. Is this book like that, or like, um, some of the others, which I couldn't get into (almost certainly because I was expecting another Remains of the Day)?

I haven't got around to reading The remains of the day Balloon but I'd say Never let me go is extremely easy to get into!