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There were whole scifi books back then predicted on the notion that
people would be grown solely to use as spare parts.
Not only did it not happen, technology is slowly making the idea
pointless.
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The idea was that people would be grown en masse solely for their organs.
Granted, your point fits what I said. But the kids that are born will
have legal rights. They aren't like hogs to slaughter.
nt
Shudder. I missed that one.
Have you seen the movie or read the rather wonderful book it's based on?
If I am wrong about the plot, please let me know.
To a scifi diehard like me, the plot is yesterdays news.
...neither the book (nor, I assume) the movie is about "plot".
Any more than Moon was about plot.
But that's OK, NLMG probably isn't your cuppa. But the book is excellent and I've heard nothing but great reviews about the film.
Don't get me wrong, I've loved SF for 40+ years, but how many brilliant "new" plots and ideas are there anyway? Sometimes SF is simply a great framework in which writers and filmmakers can explore human stories.
dfs
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fd
But then a good many Westerns are Kurosawa, character realizations set in the old west.
J.B.
dfs
You can say that about the first series. But there's lots going on
besides the cowboy shoot em up after that.
But... I gotta admit I liked Firefly, which WAS cowboys in Space.
Oh well...
Were you also a fan of Serenity? I admit I was shocked by the death of a particular character near the end.
If only Lucas could write as snappy dialog and witty a reparte as Josh Whedon.
Frankly, SWs Eps 1-3 (and even 6 truth be told) left me cold. Too busy, filled with affectless plot. Sometimes too much IS too much.
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fd
When I was a kid, it didn't take long for me to figure out that
the scifi books I was reading could make a fun swashbuckler of a movie.And the first one was.
But each following movie was substantially worse than the one that preceded it.
Edits: 12/05/10
You are sounding way too jaded my man.
reality is more unusual than science fiction.
The plot back in the 60's was that people were grown specifically for
organ harvesting. That seems to be the plot of this movie.
It's silly, and obsolete, and in the half century since then no one
has even seriously suggested it.
Clearly this is a job for that International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers...
it is simply a device used to tell a story that is meant to be a reflection on the human condition. Well anyway....
That the technology is part of the condition humans are experiencing...
I really don't want to make a big deal of this, because as a scifi nut,
my priorities are going to be different from most.
...you must just about be starved for an intelligent SF techie movie. I can't remember last time I saw one.
I'm a SF nut too...but I apparently like a broader range of movies.
You must not have liked Children Of Men either then, a film I love.
Never Let Me Go is about love, actually, and the importance of relationships.
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probably better to actually see a movie before discussing it's content.
nt
From his posts, I'm guessing Late hasn't read the book or seen the film.
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dfs
Apparently there is hot market for pony tails.
None of it is anything like Never Let Me Go.
I was reading that plot in my teens and I am about to retire.
What I read about now is news reports on work to grow parts in the lab, or switch on genes to simply have your body regrow them.
Am I missing something?
yep
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No worries. Your loss not mine. I'm just puting the word out there. what you or anyone else does with it is up to you and anyone else who happens upon my post.
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