The Analyses on Themes and Images of the Film Never Let Me Go

Abstract

Contemporary Japanese British writer Ishiguro Ishiguro has been deeply concerned by academia and readers since his creation and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. Never Let Me Go has been praised for its profound and diverse themes. It was not only nominated for The Man Booker Prize, but also listed by Time Magazine as “one of the 100 greatest English novels since the magazine was founded in 1923”. The film of the same name, Never Let Me Go, which was released in 2010, won the 37th Saturn Awards for “Best Science Fiction Film” nomination. This paper reveals the theme of soul and ethics in the film by analyzing the various images of the film Never Let Me Go. This paper is composed of four parts. The first chapter is an introduction, introducing the research background, literature review, research purpose and significance, and related theories. The second chapter analyzes the object image, space image, character image and their meaning in the film. The third chapter explores the soul theme and ethical theme of the film through the analysis of related imagery and the description of the fate of clones, and at the macro level, it analyzes the reasons for the phenomenon of clones and complaints about this social situation by comparing clones with normal human. The fourth chapter is the conclusion. On the basis of summarizing this paper, it is shown that the use of technology to create human clones to prolong human life is not desirable. Human beings are in a universal community of human destiny and the emergence of clones is contrary to human relations, and human beings should shoulder more responsibility and respect the laws of nature.