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Never Let Me Go
Why this pick
Like Gattaca, it turns a polished alternate society’s biological sorting into an intimate, melancholy story about dignity, agency, and people pushing gently against a predetermined life.
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MOVIE1997 1h 46m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In "the not-too-distant future", libertarian eugenics is common. A genetic registry database uses biometrics to classify those so created as "valids" while those conceived by traditional means and more susceptible to genetic disorders are known as "in-valids". Genetic discrimination is illegal, but in practice genotype profiling is used to identify valids to qualify for professional employment while in-valids are relegated to menial jobs.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ethan Hawke
Vincent Freeman
Uma Thurman
Irene Cassini
Jude Law
Jerome Eugene Morrow
Gore Vidal
Director Josef
Xander Berkeley
Dr. Lamar
Jayne Brook
Marie Freeman
Elias Koteas
Antonio Freeman
Maya Rudolph
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