Posted on 08/30/2014 2:54:46 PM PDT by TBP
I just watched 3 seasons of “Continuum” on Netflix. It’s about time travelers from 2077 coming back to 2012, and the flashbacks shown of life in 2077 are disturbing. The future sounds a lot like in “The Giver,” but as the show evolves, you can see it is far from perfect with many unintended consequences. Waiting for news of its renewal to find out how things are resolved!
“The Giver tells him not to trust the limited thoughts that have been given to him, but to trust what is inside”
That is exactly the advise that the left and totalitarians give in general. Trust your “feellings” not logic or reasons.
Logic, reason, and skepticism are what make conversion from “established truth” possible.
AS I read The Giver, it occurred to me that this is where our society is heading.
Trying to get people to give up their freedoms for promised alleged safety and security.
I heard the movie was made in color, however, and I think it would have been really effective if they had started it in black and white and moved to color as the story progressed.
They used black and white in the community, then partial color in Jonas’s scenes with The giver, and full color in the memories and in the events surrounding Jonas’s actions. Very effective.
Does it follow the book closely?
I’m not familiar with the book.
I was surprised at how pro-conservative the movie was.
I love the subject matter, dystopias, utopias, government control, revolutions.
Despite all that I didn’t think it was a good movie or worth watching.
the book made me sick when I read it
I found it a very powerful movie. I think it’s about the best I’ve seen in a few years. Which, of course, means it won’t win any awards for anything.
I went to see the movie and really enjoyed it, which is saying a lot as there hasn’t been a movie out in a long time that I could say that about.
They did a wonderful job with the black and white vs color scenes.
They changed a little of the story, but in general followed the book pretty well and used some of the dialog that I thought was critical to the story, word for word out of the book.
That movie could have been rated *G* and it was not a computer animation fest.
I thought it was quite effective. I know they changed Jonas’s age, but it works that way.
I just saw “The Giver” and liked it a lot. It’s not a perfect movie, but it’s heart is in the right place. This was a 20-year project of Jeff Bridges. He originally bought the rights to cast his father in it. I especially like the ending where a Christmas carol was being sung in the distance. It wasn’t a religious movie, but it was a moral movie. Jeff Bridges deserves a lot of respect for bringing it about.
I am starting to find it stupid that protagonists are always or usually very very young. This whole PC thing where the children are smarter than parents is just ridiculous to me.
And why does every story have a main character who is falling in love, but never “been in love”? Why? does “love” not exist beyond the next page or chapter?
And oppose all limits on your behavior too! Why can't a man marry 3 dogs and a donkey? Who are you to limit that?
This particular book is a children's book, written for older children and young teens. The protagonists of children's books and teen books are always children or teenagers, just as the protagonists in adult literature are adults. Jonas, the main character in this novel is only 11, although he is a few years older in the movie.
The Giver was first published over 20 years ago. It is about a dystopian society where the elitists who “know better” than everyone else strictly control the lives of the citizens. Everyone is told what they will do and how they are to think. They live their lives with little privacy or freedom. As for it being a book that advocates a PC mentality, I found it to do nothing of the kind. Frankly, it sounds like where we are headed with the Left becoming increasingly in control of freedom of thought in our country.
“The giver” seems very anti-PC to me. It’s a nice shot across the bough of the politically correct utopians.
“If everyone stopped being so PC,
Maybe we could live in harmony.” — Avenue Q
In the article, I led by quoting Yogi Berra: “If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.”
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