Describe your overall sentiment about the film.

Sentiments, or feelings and opinions, vary
widely based on personal experience. The film is based on the novel of the
same name by . Sentiments felt when watching a film based on a book such as Never Let
Me Go can depend upon both the prior life experience the viewer brings to a film and
the differences between the experience watching the film and what the viewer might have expected
after having read a book.

For example, my primary sentiment while watching
the film was sadness. I find the story of three doomed young people to be deeply moving. I am
also someone who likes a happy ending, and the fact that Tommy and Kathy die at the end makes me
sad, even if it is a realistic narrative in the dystopian society that Never Let Me Go
is set.

I also felt some frustration with the movie adaptation, as
it did not bring forward some of my favorite elements of the book. For example, I really
appreciated the friendship that Kathy and Ruth had in the book, where they would take turns
lying to help each other. I also felt that Kathy had a more interesting relationship with Tommy
in the book: although she loved him, she also had relationships with other people.

I also read the book and watched the film after having initially read The
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, which also takes on the subject of organ
donation by clones but has a very different ending. I personally appreciated how the two books
dealt with a similar theme in very different settings (England and the Mexican-American border,
respectively) and with characters with different psychological profiles.

Other people might have other sentiments, however, based on their own experiences. For
other readers who had read both books, the repetition might be frustrating, or one book might
seem much better than the other. Some viewers of the film might find that the aesthetics of the
movie perfectly capture what they pictured while reading the book. For viewers who have not read
the book beforehand, the plot of the movie might seem boring, or the characters might seem
unrealistic.