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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Format | Color, Digital_copy |
Contributor | Taylor Swift, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgård, Phillip Noyce, Katie Holmes, Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 37 minutes |
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The Giver centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), who is the sole keeper of all the community’s memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past. With this newfound power of knowledge, he realizes that the stakes are higher than imagined – a matter of life and death for himself and those he loves most. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all – a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before. The Giver is based on Lois Lowry’s beloved young adult novel of the same name, which was the winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.5 x 5.4 x 6.7 inches; 4 ounces
- Item model number : WEIC61747BR
- Director : Phillip Noyce
- Media Format : Color, Digital_copy
- Run time : 1 hour and 37 minutes
- Release date : November 25, 2014
- Actors : Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
- Studio : Anchor Bay Entertainment
- ASIN : B00MU2P18W
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #32,326 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #12,071 in Blu-ray
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“If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” - Jonas from "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
"Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often-there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen." ["The Giver" by Lois Lowry (Ch 13, pg 103)]
“It’s the choosing that’s important, isn’t it?” - The Giver from "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
You could connect this with another great saying found in the fantasy series "Harry Potter" by J. K. Rowling:
"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort." -Albus Dumbledore, Ch 34 in Goblet of Fire
As this dystopian fantasy story reveals, life is more then just conforming to what is popular, trendy, politically correct, or whatever will be accepted by a public majority or minority. Life is more then "sameness". Fantasy--utopian and dystopian--reveal a part of the deeper reality of creation which is beyond out comprehension yet engrained within our Being, often experienced through community, truth, charity, religion, friendship, and family.
As Tolkien and Lewis most eloquently put it:
“Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.”
- (Preface to the Second Edition of "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien and edited by Christopher Tolkien)
“But fairy-stories offer also, in a peculiar degree or mode, these things: Fantasy, Recovery, Escape, Consolation, all things of which children have, as a rule, less need than older people.”
- ("Tree and Leaf: On Fairy-stories" by J.R.R. Tolkien)
"Fantasy can, of course, be carried to excess. It can be ill done. It can be put to evil uses. It may even delude the minds out of which it came. But of what human thing in this fallen world is that not true?”
- ("Tree and Leaf: On Fairy-stories" by J.R.R. Tolkien)
"You can have a realistic story in which all the things & people are exactly like those we meet in real life, but the quality, the feel or texture or smell, of it is not. In a great romance it is just the opposite. I’ve never met Orcs or Ents or Elves-but the feel of it, the sense of a huge past, of lowering danger, of heroic tasks achieved by the most apparently unheroic people, of distance, vastness, strangeness, homeliness (all blended together) is so exactly what living feels like to me.”
- ("The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy" 1950-1963 Edited by Walter Hooper)
What do you really feel? What are you thinking? How are you feely willing? What will you choose?
Will you conform your mind to reality?
"What is Truth?" - Pilate, John 18:38 (RSVCE Bible)
P.S. The quotes and more information about their sources can be googled, or found on "The Lion's Call" website. the website was helpful to find the exact quotes I was looking for from Tolkien and Lewis' letters and essays. Google helped with one of my favorite quotes from Harry Potter. Then of course the Bible. Highly recommend all books!!! :)
At the heart of this movie, The Giver is a celebration of life, the discovery of the beauty of colors of sunrises and sunsets, of romantic love, of dancing, sled riding, sky diving, and all the glories of creation that testify of the goodness and beauty of life that is meant to be lived and enjoyed. One of the messages in the movie is that it is our experiences are one of the things that give meaning, purpose, and value to life itself--without which we are not really living life as it is meant to be lived.
There is a real mourning in this movie for the bad choices of humanity and the fallen nature of man, but there is also the contrast of the good things in life and the challenge that we can make things better if we make good choices instead of evil ones. The movie ends with the main character at a house in the snow at winter time with the song “Silent Night” being sung in the background. The hero holds a baby in His arms. An image which is very fitting given the song about the baby Jesus playing in the background. He says that the Giver had led him to this house and that he can hear singing in the distance. He thought it might just be an echo but he knew "it would lead us all home". In the background a family is singing Silent Night and the hero walks to the house that is glowing and beckoning with Christmas cheer.
As the movie ended I couldn't help but notice the parallels in this movie to what happens when someone is saved by faith in Jesus and they realize that there is much more to life than what we are taught to believe. To me the Giver in this movie is an archtype of God. Not a perfect representation but merely an echo of one who is able to impart life and the treasures of life to humanity. The Elders represent the world and the lies of the world that we have embraced as a society, and that there are things that we have been taught are ok which are actually grievous to the Giver. He is longing for us to take action and save our race. The euthanizing of the baby reminded me of the cold hard fact of legalized abortion and its general acceptance by our Elders who rule in our land. It is a heavy parallel which is only lightened in this movie by the hero’s discovery of the beauty and wonder of life in this movie. The glory of love, the wonder of beauty, the mysteries of faith, the majesty of creation all are paths into the house of the Giver. All bear witness of a song of Eden that echoes from eternity. It is both the song from where we come from and the song that will lead us home. If we listen, to it then it will lead us to a house that is real and brimming with warmth, life, love, and celebration. The Giver is calling you to come. This movie is but one of the memories He wants to give you! Check it out.
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過激な描写や派手な展開はないものの、個人的に好きなストーリーです。
日本仕様のDVDがなかったので、あえてブルーレイとDVDの2枚組のセットを購入しました。
せっかくついているDVDが手持ちのプレーヤーで使えないので星4にしましたが、
それがなければ星5の評価です。
P. Fabrizio