never let me go

"We didn't have The Gallery in order to look into your souls. We had The Gallery to see if you had souls at all."

Se volessimo trovare un'esperienza affettiva vicina a quella di "never let me go" di Mark Romanek, probabilmente "espiazione" di Joe Wright sarebbe il candidato ideale: lontane dall'identità narrativa o contenutistica, le due pellicole respirano a pieni polmoni un'atmosfera cupa e deprimente, storie di vite che avrebbero potuto essere normali e felici e che invece sono state consumate troppo presto da un disegno già scritto che fino alla fine lo spettatore prega sarà spezzato e modificato, per poi assistere impotente  a uno spettacolo impietoso e crudele.

We all complete

" I come here and imagine that this is the spot where everything I've lost since my childhood is washed out. I tell myself, if that were true, and I waited long enough then a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy. He'd wave. And maybe call. I don't know if the fantasy go beyond that, I can't let it. I remind myself I was lucky to have had any time with him at all. What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time. "