The film, Never Let Me Go, by Mark Romanek interrogates a possible alternative history for the world and is a commentary on the human condition. Wrapped up in these ideas is the fact that it is also a commentary on the philosophy of science. What Romanek does is pose questions, and after enough thought on the part of the viewers, they eventually realize that today's world could conceivably be like the one in the film. This is because our story is not too far from that of the film. The fact that this is true reminds us that what we are watching is not fantasy or a "what if?" question. We have been down this path before. This film has various attributes that show what the powers that be, and those that are, have used to subjugate the people and how the veil has been drawn over the eyes of the common man. The starting question to discover the message of the film is: what kind of society must this be if certain lives, those of the "Donors", are worth less than human lives? This question is disturbing, and not very soon after this question entered my thoughts I realized that scarier things have happened in the story, and maybe they are just a couple of decisions away. That horrible things have happened in history is shocking to the conscience. Is organ harvesting anything really different considering the very real and comparably worse history of eugenics? Is it morally defensible? The world of Never Let Me Go isn't that far away. Using an ethical issue like forced organ harvesting sheds light on our very real transgressions. It makes you wonder how, if things like the Holocaust hadn't happened and anti-Semitism continued, at what level would dehumanizing others not be acceptable? Humanity has experienced some appa...... middle of paper ......eil has been put before our eyes since we began to be indoctrinated into our institutions that support systematic oppression. When discussing these topics of science and history, people will most likely not believe you, or may even mock you, for the objectivity of science or for knowing issues related to the darkest history of nations that are not found in books of high school history. Never Let Me Go was an alternate history, but not too much. The fact that Never Let Me Go is not a future dystopia but a past dystopia shows that we don't have to make bad choices to get to a bleak future that amounts to a fun existential threat, but that we went about it in a different way. . The influence of human rights on global affairs is great because more and more people and governments are not willing to silently endure the systematic exploitation we have had in the past.