Movie's director presented the truth too soon...it killed the story
I lost all the interest in the movie after the teacher told the truth to children (about minute 30). In my opinion, that killed the movie.
shareIt's not really the director's fault. The screenplay was written by Alex Garland.
A film typically runs for an hour and a half. I wouldn't call myself a fast reader, it usually takes me about a week to read a book, sometimes longer. The novel of Never Let Me Go revealed the truth about the children much later than in the film. Alfred Hitchcock said the length of a film 'should be directly related to the endurance of a human bladder,' so the story told in a film, as opposed to the story told in a novel, has to move along a lot quicker.