62. Never Let Me Go (2010)

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Now, I'm all for the freaky dystopian society movies, but this one just straight up creeped me out...in a good way... The first part of the movie takes place in the late 1970s, following three young children who live at a very strange boarding school which is focused around staying on the grounds and being overly healthy. As the film goes on, and the children grow up, it becomes more and more clear as to why they grew up at this school, it wasn't to grow up and be successful adults, but organ donors instead. In this strange society, there are a group of people who were cloned from other people and are only kept alive until their early 20s when they have to start donating their organs to sick people. They do the donation surgeries in three rounds, with the donor becoming increasingly more sick with each surgery- until they die after the third one. The story was so incredibly unsettling that I felt like I was being stabbed in the stomach the whole time. That being said, Carrey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield were all wonderful and added a sense of realism that made it seem like this world was actually possible. As a huge fan of the books "The Giver," and "1984," this was the most realistic dystopian story that I have either seen or read. I feel like it could easily happen, as scary as that sounds. I personally don't know what the future will hold, but I really hope we don't get to that point where we are raising generations of people just to have their lives abruptly cut short, raising children to die.