YES:
- Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan
NO:
- Can we please agree to have no more scenes of someone screaming with emotion while music swells behind them? Not just in trailers, but in all movies. Does this ever occur in real life?
- Kind of like in the trailer for Black Swan, there are weird little things going on here and there – kids putting their hands over sensors, talk of making “donations” - trying to hint to us that something strange is going on in this film. But the problem with this trailer is they are too subtle, and they get lost in the gravitas of the love story as the trailer progresses.
- When I first saw this trailer I actually briefly thought that this was the film version of the book “The Giver”.
- I became much more interested in seeing this film after reading the wikipedia page for the book (beware: spoilers). What I found out is that the trailer is so subtle that the entire underlying creepiness of the plot is completely missed. I don’t know if that’s the way the film was made – apparently the book slowly reveals the reality as well – and if it was then so be it. The lack of presenting the main theme will hurt this film a lot at the box office. But if the reality is slowly revealed and it’s done in a compelling fashion, perhaps this film could emerge as a sleeper hit that spreads on word of mouth.
Never Let Me Go premieres January 20th.
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