Comments on: I Can Never Let It Go

By: BigTomHatfield

BigTomHatfield — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:22:28 +0000

I have the same problem with this I have with the Island, it all starts from the nonsense scare story view of cloning that assumes that full grown humans will be grown but not have full human rights. The idea of cloning the required parts, or the concept that clones would obviously have a right to life (as is the case with the clones we currently have, also known as twins) is completely ignored.

You’re starting from a stupid place to begin with, and it’s only going to be downhill from there.

By: FlyingSquirrel

FlyingSquirrel — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:48:12 +0000

Hooray I found Chris Livingston again! Shame on you for sneaking away for a year ;D. And thank you Mr. Tom Francis for linking me back to him. Looking forward to more fun reviews and shenanigans Chris! :) Oh, and haven’t seen this one, but sounds like a miss to me.

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 16 May 2011 02:56:00 +0000

In reply to Tom Francis.

Tom, have I ever told you you’re awesome?

…Yes, I have actually.

Disregard that question, and replace it with one of the earlier positive statements about you.

By: DirtyBlue929

DirtyBlue929 — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:36:18 +0000

In reply to name name. Dude, f*** off. Just be glad to know he's ALIVE. He'll go back if he wants to, jesus.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Sun, 15 May 2011 19:51:11 +0000

Reminds me of a book called ‘Spares’ by Michael Marshall Smith which has a much more realistic idea of how clones would be treated (ie locked in a darkened room and fed gruel by minimum wage carers). From there on out it just goes batshit insane, and dark, but mainly insane.
Well worth a read then.

By: name name

name name — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:23:59 +0000

why have you stopped updating nondrick?

By: DirtyBlue929

DirtyBlue929 — Sun, 15 May 2011 16:56:41 +0000

This has nothing to do wth the subject at hand, but HOLY MOTHER OF DOG CHRIS IS ALIVE?!? AND HE DIDN’T TELL HIS HUNDREDS OF LOYAL FANS?!?

Ah well, it’s a great comfort to know that he’s still kicking, at least! :D

By: Tom Francis

Tom Francis — Sun, 15 May 2011 08:57:12 +0000

Man, that was depressing.

I watched it mainly to find out what the premise was, since I wasn’t sure how much of a spoiler that would be.

It fails on almost every level. It’s only got the beginning of a concept, it plays out like the writer hasn’t thought it through for even a minute.

We’re asked to believe that Donors have been so institutionalised to accept their fate that the world is 100% certain they will never attempt to avoid a slow painful death they know is coming, and yet the emotional crux of the film is Cathy and Tommy’s desperate attempts to escape it, and their sorrow and rage when they find they can’t. Except that they can.

Even if the sci-fi stuff worked, it’s just a terrible character piece. We’re supposed to feel Tommy’s pain at having no time with Cathy after he spent six years fucking her friend in the next room, and nine years after they broke up making no attempt to find her. Boo fucking hoo. Solution: don’t be a useless cock in the first place.

Beautifully shot though.

By: Bret

Bret — Sat, 14 May 2011 05:37:28 +0000

Agreed on the leaving.

I mean, they want to live, whole film is looking for an out, but nobody goes “Bugger all this for a game of soldiers” and drives for the border?

People staged open rebellions in concentration camps. Give them the open road, and tell them they have a death sentence unless they run, you should expect running.

By: Jimothy

Jimothy — Sat, 14 May 2011 00:37:40 +0000

The fact that they’re allowed to leave is a big point. I haven’t seen the film, but in the book, the clones, in a way, accept their fates. It’s used as a metaphor for how people in the real world go through their lives submitting to being treated like expendable, replaceable parts in society.