Never Let Me Go to the Island

Here I am comparing Never Let Me Go and The Island One of these movies is very clearly better than the other. If you’ve watched both movies you obviously know which one this is. Personally, I place the better one up in the top third of movies and the bad one deep in the bottom quarter.

Never Let Me go asks you to consider a possible reality where the world as a whole accepts the use of clones as involuntary organ donors. Where not only is the general populace ok with this practice, but the clones themselves are aware of their fate and do not fight against it. It crafts this world to try and show us just how this would be, it asks the question, are the clones really considering everything or are they too far brainwashed?

There is no philosophical questions at all in The Island. The clones are made-to-order organ products and this is fucking evil. The practice is so evil that obviously it has to be done in secret. And of course, even the clones naturally must hate their fate so it has to be kept totally secret from them. Only mean, rich businessmen and a select few other terrible people actually know about and support this practice, and they have to keep it secret even from the people purchasing the organs!

The funny thing is, I don’t know who’s right. Maybe Michael Bay’s perspective is so obviously correct that it’s actually dumb to present a world where cloned organ donors are accepted.

But what Never Let Me Go does is it poses a world radically different from our own and asks you to think about it. It says, ‘Hey look, this is our best attempt at creating a world where