Director: Mark Romanek
Year Released: 2010
Rating: 1.0
In this nightmarish tale based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, boarding school kids are bred to be organ donors for the ailing populace, but they seem to be completely oblivious as to how tragic and insane this is, sheltered as they are - meanwhile, in the confines of this hellhole, two of the girls (Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan) fight over the affections of a troubled artist-lad (Andrew Garfield). The love triangle 'driving' this lacks power or emotion - director Romanek, ever the technician, has a way of making the chilly chillier, which works against the inherent frigidness and dark cruelty of Ishiguro's story: the children/young adults move like automatons and appear incapable of realizing just how awful this is, posing with frowns and shrugs. I can only hope there's a deeper philosophy and sense of humanity in the Ishiguro novel, because this just plays like a Lambs-Resigned-To-The-Slaughter scenario - at least in Logan's Run and Dogtooth someone - for the love of God - tries to escape.
