Our friend Joan Frawley Desmond has reviewed the new movie Never Let Me Go on the Catholic site Headline Bistro .
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro — the British writer that earned global fame with The Remains of the Day , a riveting story of a class-bound butler in pre-war England — Never Let Me Go isn’t fizzy “date night” material. Rather it goes to the very heart of what it means to be human: the search for our origins, the bonds of love and duty, the struggle to determine our earthly purpose. Such themes rarely surface in contemporary films, but they are treated here with a remarkable depth likely to threaten the complacency of reproductive technology’s most fervent cheerleaders.
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