For those viewers who haven’t read Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, and aren’t expecting an elegantly understated, devastating allegory of the human condition, Never Let Me Go might work on its own terms, as a classic love story with a sci-fi twist. But, like last year’s The Road , another loving adaptation of a contemporary classic, Never Let Me Go teases out the novel’s central drama but neglects the mysteries at its margins — the gathering clouds that actually produce the storm.
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REVIEW: Never Let Me Go Can’t Get a Handle on Its Understated Source Material
