Ashleigh Miller
I wasn't sure on this film to begin with due to it being in black and white but I love that the reason for this was so when the memories returned to the main character you could see the colour and how things are different from when the city felt nothing. This was such a great way of showing why the planet needs emotion and not to be cut off from all emotions. Loved this a lot more than I expected! Highly recommend watching this
sbaynes99
That is time I will never get back. Starts well, then quickly become a terrible waste of film.
cinemajesty
Movie Review: "The Giver" (2014)Based on a children's book published under the same striking main title by Lois Lowry with first literary reception in 1994, when this modestly-produced over post-production color-forcing to cross-cutting pseudo-innnovations-striking motion picture directed by 63-year-old Philip Noyce, known for directing competently as capable with the "Tom Clancy's Political-Thriller" screen-adaptations of the 1990s and the breaktaking open-water-thriller "Dead Calm" (1988) starring Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill; here comes an exclusively distributed thoughts-provoking movie by "The Weinstein Company" in Summer 2014 with respect to another take on a "Totalitarian-Society-Model", where teenager gets medicated, brainwashed and restrainingly hold-back to fulfill actions of choice under the selected few enforcing elders, led by professionally-acting no further beats sharing actress Meryl Streep in clinches with a seemingly unbalanced Jeff Bridges as the character of "The Giver", who prevails in keeping sacred memories from the past in a atmospheric designed library by production designer Ed Verreaux, when an hopelessly mis-cast leading actor Brenton Thwaites, who seemed to had rebound with last year's minor role in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" (2017), as the character of Jonas, choosen by an island-isolated society of perfectly made-up human beings, to be the "The New Giver" in successions to a picture that after just 85 minutes, believing to hold "The Holy Grail" of wisdom in the spectre's mind; must fail to come full circle by just stopping at a point of nowhere safe, with its unless compelling as emotionally to skilfull cinematographic captures by lighting cameraman Ross Emery in favors toward director Phillip Noyce, who just got overthrown by production needs without just showcasing a utterly wasted supporting cast surrounding Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgard and beat-talented musician Taylor Swift to a missing peaking nemesis-confrontation, which would have made "The Giver" a motion picture for the ages.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend
(Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
gian_99
I watched this on Netflix, and was a bit unsure after reading some newspaper reviews from movie critics. I think this movie has been judged too harshly. I did not have any problem understanding the "how" human society got there. How it was possible to consider so much of the joys we take in life as something to be sacrificed for the opportunity not to suffer the pain we have. I did not have a problem to imagine a society orderly organizing the lives of every single member of the community. Some feature of the organization attained by the movie's society are old ideas really, out of some philosopher's dreams (or out of everybody else's nightmare): Plato's Republic came to my mind, during some parts of the movie, except that the society in the movies arrives to strikingly similar results from following objectives which are way different (getting rid of pain was not Plato's objective in an ideal organization of society). I liked the acting, especially in the character of the Giver, Fiona and Jonas. I think the use of black and white was interesting. What almost managed to ruin the whole movie was the rushed ending. It could have been much better: but as it is, it just looks like the money to keep filming suddenly finished up and they had to look for a quick way to end the movie. In any case it's still a 7.
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