Saturday, May 07, 2016
Body parts
Science fiction is best when it sits right on our present day situation.
Such is the case in today's film
a chilling story about kids who are raised to become organ donors. They get to have three donations and then they are "transitioned". I mean, how many parts can you give up?
I suppose there is something wrong with the technical aspect of this idea but there is nothing wrong with the story based on a novel by Kazuo Ushiguro,
It is set in the present day which makes it a little eerie. Perhaps this is really going on somewhere!
It gives an edge to the horror aspect of the film.
But the movie never goes over the edge with the idea. Everything seems quite possible.
The kids are Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield. Charlotte Rampling is the house Mistress of the "school" where these kids are brought up.
The three are in a love triangle. Three ways.
It does not occur to them that they can do much to alter their fate. They have to work with what they have which is each other.
I liked this a lot and saw it before which makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.
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