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Never Let Me Go
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Didn't read the book but did see the movie.
The colour scheme of the movie drove me to distraction. It was subtle at first, then its subtlety became a gigantic jackhammer pounding on my head yelling LOOK HOW SUBTLE THIS IS. Everything is fawn-coloured, many many shades of beige and brown, nothing primary, pastels as far as the eye can see, and this is interiors and exteriors both, the weather is always overcast and misty or autumnal, blue skies or yellow suns all abolished, and all of this serves as a visualisation of the REPRESSED EMOTIONS of the poor wee clones whose bathetic fates we follow.
Send in the clones
Dressed in earth tones
Boo hoo
The colour scheme of the movie drove me to distraction. It was subtle at first, then its subtlety became a gigantic jackhammer pounding on my head yelling LOOK HOW SUBTLE THIS IS. Everything is fawn-coloured, many many shades of beige and brown, nothing primary, pastels as far as the eye can see, and this is interiors and exteriors both, the weather is always overcast and misty or autumnal, blue skies or yellow suns all abolished, and all of this serves as a visualisation of the REPRESSED EMOTIONS of the poor wee clones whose bathetic fates we follow.
Send in the clones
Dressed in earth tones
Boo hoo
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December 6, 2011
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March 16, 2016
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October 8, 2017
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October 8, 2017
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October 8, 2017
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January 18, 2019
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February 27, 2023
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Dec 06, 2011 08:08AM
Occasionally the tone of the book escalates from resigned to naively hopeful.
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I think beige is a good adjective to describe the book, as well. while I enjoyed the book for the most part, it just kinda slithered along in a very monotone and beige way.
You dodged a bullet (by not reading the book).
Maybe moviemakers see "Ishiguro" and think tamped down . . . think Remains of the Day also.
Funniest non-book review Ive seen all month. Greige-on, man!
LOOK HOW SUBTLE THIS ISBoy, that phrase got me
Bummer. I'm listening to the book. I'll listen for beige-ness. 😉
This is a review of the cinematography of a movie and says nothing about the book. Why did you even bother?
Perhaps Rotten Tomatoes is a better place for this review. Instead you're conflating a movie you've seen with a book you haven't read.
