Sunday, November 6, 2016
The Thinning Trailer
This trailer is to a movie called the Thinning on Youtube Red. The movie is about this society where kids have to take a standardized test to control the population. If the kids fail they are taken away and eliminated. The kids all then break the system because they realize that these tests are hiding a larger conspiracy. I find that this relates to Never Let Me Go because the kids in the Thinning are getting eliminated because of population size and in Never Let Me Go people are being cloned so they can be donors and eventually be "eliminated". I find that these tests also correlate with how long the students at Hailsham are being graded or looked upon because of their creativity. I also thought that when these kids are trying to go against the system because they believe that there was no way they failed that test, they go out and fight the system. In Never Let Me Go this "fighting of the system" is shown when the kids show people that they are in love so they do not have to donate their organs. I believe that the Thinning is very closely related to Never Let Me Go.
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I think this is really interesting and a cool connection. I also think that it's fascinating that in both cases, it's children who are being "tested" -- in the Thinning, the children take the test, and in NLMG, the students start being "creative" as children. However, I would argue that the Thinning is sort of the opposite of NLMG because in the Thinning, the society is attempting to decrease population size, whereas in NLMG the society is attempting to give people organs so that they live longer. Since we don't really know the purpose of organ donation in NLMG, I can't really be sure, but that's just a thought I had.
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