never let me go

Plot

The film begins with on-screen captions explaining that a medical breakthrough in 1952 has permitted the human lifespan to be extended beyond 100 years. Subsequently, the film is narrated by 28-year-old Kathy H (Carey Mulligan) as she reminisces about her childhood at a boarding school called Hailsham, as well as her adult life after leaving the school. The first act of the film depicts the young Kathy, along with her friends Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley), spending their childhood at Hailsham in the late 1970s. At one point, one of the teachers, Miss Lucy (Sally Hawkins) quietly informs the pupils of their fate: they are destined to provide donor organs for transplants, and will die young. The following day Miss Lucy is "no longer working at Hailsham". As time passes, Tommy becomes emotionally fragile. Although Kathy falls in love with him, Ruth and Tommy begin a relationship. They stay together throughout the rest of their time at Hailsham.

In the second act of the film, the three friends, now teenagers, are rehoused in cottages on a farm. They are permitted to leave the grounds if they wish but are resigned to their eventual fate, seeing it as inevitable. At the farm, they meet former pupils of schools similar to theirs. It is revealed that Kathy and the others are all clones, created for organ harvesting. At one point, two of the others take Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth to a nearby town to see if a woman they had previously seen is Ruth's "original", the person she was modeled on. Ruth is very excited at first, but when she sees that the woman doesn't look like her, she gets disappointed and angry, and says they should never have expected they could find her original in a high-class place, because they are all "modeled on trash", meaning junkies and prostitutes, "maybe as long as they're not mad".

From the others, Kathy and her friends hear rumors of the possibility of "deferral" – a temporary reprieve from organ donation for clones who are in love and can prove it. Tommy becomes convinced that The Gallery at Hailsham, where the children's art and poetry was kept, was intended to look into their souls. He believes that artwork sent to The Gallery will verify true love. The relationship between Tommy and Ruth becomes sexual, and jealousy causes Kathy and Ruth to break their friendship. Kathy, who can no longer put up with loneliness, becomes a "carer" – a clone who is given a temporary reprieve from donation to do the job of supporting and comforting donors as they give up their organs. In time, Tommy and Ruth's relationship ends, though it happens after Kathy has left and is not depicted.

In the third and final act of the film, 10 years later, Kathy is working as a carer. She has watched many clones gradually die as their organs are harvested; their deaths are referred to as "completion". Kathy hasn't seen Ruth or Tommy since the cottages. While working as a carer, Kathy happens to find Ruth who is frail after two donations. They find Tommy, who is also weakened by his donations, and drive to the sea as a short trip. There, Ruth admits that she did not love Tommy, and only seduced him because she was afraid to be alone. She is consumed with guilt and has been searching for a way to help Tommy and Kathy. She believes that the rumors of "deferral" for couples are true, and has found the address of the gallery owner, Madame from Hailsham, whom she thinks may grant deferrals to couples in love. Ruth dies on theoperating table shortly afterward.

Tommy explains to Kathy that he has been creating art in the hope that it will convince Madame to give them a deferral. He and Kathy drive to visit Madame, who lives with the headmistress of Hailsham. The two teachers tell them that there is no such thing as deferral, and that Tommy's artworks will not help him. They also explain that the purpose of The Gallery was to see if clones have souls, and to challenge the ethics of the creation of donors; Hailsham was the last place to consider the ethical implications of the donor scheme and try to improve conditions for clones. And that it closed down due to lack of funding, because people no longer wanted to think where the organs came from. As they take in the news on their return journey, Tommy breaks down in an explosion of rage and frustration as Kathy resignedly accepts her fate. The film ends with Tommy being anesthetized on the operating table for what would be his last organ donation. Kathy is left alone, knowing that her organ donations will begin in one month. Contemplating the ruins of her childhood, she asks in voice-over whether her fate is really any different from the people who will receive her organs: after all, "we all complete".

cerita yang cukup menitikkan air mata ini sangat menyentuh..

bisa dibayangkan jika benar-benar ada hal seperti itu, dan jika saya yang harus menjadi seperti kathy, saya tidak akan setegar dirinya... 

saya pasti akan berontak setelah mengetahui bahwa saya hanyalah alat untuk dijadikan donasi bagi para pasien yang mengidap kanker dan penyakit parah lainnya.. 

saya tidak akan rela memberikan bagian organ dalam saya untuk pasien-pasien tersebut, dan Carey Mulligan saya sangat salut dan mengagumi karakter yang ia perankan, ia sangat bagus dan teliti dalam memerankan karakter kathy di film tersebut.  

film ini patut di acungi jempol karena perwatakan dan setting tempat yang cukup indah dan penghayatan alur cerita yang cukup dalam dan menyentuh penonton.