Struggling To Understand Never Let Me Go Without Subtitles? Don’t Panic

Last week on the blog we had an amazing post, (I think it's one of the best on there), a guest post from Trisha of Vagabond English where she talked about using books and other types of literature to better understand films that you watch so that you can get rid of the subtitles.

One of the book and film pairs that Trisha and I absolutely loved and talked about when we were discussing putting together this article is "Never let me go" by Kazuo Ishiguro. He's Japanese and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year.

The film came out in 2010, so it's a few years old. I remember seeing it at the cinema. I came out of the cinema and thought "did that actually happen?"

The book and film are based in a kind of dystopian society and it looks and feels very similar to our own, and I think that's why I came out thinking "Gees, did that actually happen?"

It's a really haunting book and film pair, and my task now is to actually read the book. But what I'm doing with you for the next few weeks is helping you to understand the film, because even if you have read the book and implemented Trish's tips, there's always going to be some difficulties when you come to actually watching the film.