Movie Classification: P13
Genre: Drama / Science Fiction / Fantasy
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring:
- Jeff Bridges (The Giver)
- Meryl Streep (The Chief Elder)
- Brenton Thwaites (Jonas)
- Alexander Skarsgård (Jonas's father)
- Odeya Rush (Fiona)
- Katie Holmes (Jonas's mother)
- Taylor Swift (Rosemary)
- Cameron Monaghan (Asher)
Running Time: 1 Hour 37 Minutes
Released Date: 4th September 2014
Distributor: GSCMovies
Language: English
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The Giver Synopsis
The setting is a society in the year 2048. After a big war, the community had decided to get rid of colors, therefore different races and feelings. All the citizens have had the memories from before erased from their minds; thus as the Receiver of Memory, Jonas must receive the only memories of before from the past receiver, The Giver. The Receiver of Memory is the only individual in the community who has the memories and must advise the Chief Elder, and the other Elders, on the decisions for the community, who are unaware of anything that happened before their community. Jonas progressively receives memories, eventually including knowledge of the Giver's past and of his child, Rosemary. She preceded Jonas as Receiver of Memory, and was so distraught from the memories that she committed suicide, by what the Community call releasing. They regard its nature as mysterious; the audience learn that it is death via a lethal injection. Jonas begins to teach his findings to his friend Fiona, who he decides to share the idea of feelings with. Fiona is unsure of how she feels about feelings, but they kiss while together privately.
Jonas also shares his memories with the baby his father brought home to their house, Gabe, and develops a close relationship with him after discovering he shares the same mark on his wrist Jonas does, the mark of a potential Receiver of Memory. Jonas decides that everyone should have the memories of the past and eventually, the Giver and Jonas decide that the only way they can help the community is to go past the border of what they call Elsewhere, beyond the community, therefore releasing the memories back into the community. Jonas sneaks out at curfew, and decides to get Gabe at the Nurturing Center, who is to be released of weakness. Asher, his other longtime friend besides Fiona, tries to stop him before he leaves the neighborhood, but Jonas quickly punches him. Asher lies on the ground, stunned, and Jonas rides his bike to the Nurturing Center. He tells Fiona his plan and wants to take her with him, but she refuses and instead helps him retrieve Gabe. Before he leaves, she kisses him on the lips and helps him escape.
Jonas's mother and Asher, meanwhile, go to the Chief Elder to tell them Jonas is missing. Guards are sent to contain Jonas, who they say has become "dangerous", but Jonas gets one of their motorcycles and drives off the cliff near the Giver's dwelling into "The Elsewhere". Asher is assigned, by the Chief Elder, to use a drone to find Jonas and "lose" him but when Asher finds Jonas stumbling through the woods, he captures him with the drone. After Jonas implores Asher to think that if he ever cared for Jonas to let him go, Asher drops him into a river, setting him free. Jonas stumbles through the land of Elsewhere, while Fiona has been condemned to be "released" for helping him. Just as she is about to be released by Jonas's father, the Giver steps in and stalls the Chief Elder with memories of his daughter, Rosemary, trying to call out the Chief Elder, in which she succeeded. Eventually, Jonas finds a sled like one he rode in a memory from the Giver and makes his way beyond the border of Elsewhere, releasing memories and color back into the community and saving Fiona because Jonas's father realizes what he was really doing. Jonas and Gabe return to the house of his memories, where people are singing Christmas carols, and his voiceover says that back in the community, he swears he hears music too, or maybe just an echo.
The Giver Movie Review
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world. In the movie, although Jonas don't have any skill, but his braveness and determine to bring back the old memory to the community. And his attitude is a good moral value for us to learn. Besides that, this movie is talking about the friendship too. Fiona willing to sacrifice herself to help Jonas to bring back the old memory to the community. Even though the Chief Elder asked Asher to kill Jonas but he helped Jonas to bring him to the place which is nearer to the Border of Memory. As a conclusion, friendship is important where they will always support you when you needed.
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