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Jeff Bridges (Actor), Meryl Streep (Actor), Phillip Noyce (Director) Rated:
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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
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 11,090 ratings

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Not good... DVD damaged and skips a lot!!!
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Not good... DVD damaged and skips a lot!!!
The dvd is damaged apon arrival...sadly with its arrival I came fairly well packaged but I played it and the dvd has something wrong. First 30min were fine of the film... but anything after is unwatchable. It’s unbelievable. I was hoping the shipping messed it up. Because one of my favorite movies I wanted on DVD can’t play because it was damaged..
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Franny B
5.0 out of 5 stars "You have the Courage, let me give you the Strength" - The Giver
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2023
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This was a great movie adaptation of Lois Lowry's original book "The Giver". While the movie cannot capture all the little details and struggles in the book and had to tweak some of the plot, the main message of the story is portrayed very well. The book series remains to this day one of my favorite dystopian literature series. Highly recommend reading the book before the movie to understand the beauty and details hidden within. If you have already watched the movie, definitely still recommend reading the book and to continue Lois Lowry's other books in "The Giver" series---"Gathering Blue", "Messenger", and "Son". Do you have the Courage, the Strength?

“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!!! :)
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Lara Bista
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend this thought provoking film
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2024
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I read the book. Both the book and the move are excellent. The subject matter is very thought provoking. I highly recommend this movie. I recently had to chose my favorite book to send to a friend and this is it.
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Jay
5.0 out of 5 stars Well made film
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024
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Different from the book in some important ways, but tied it all together in the end.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2023
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Great movie! It’s not the same as the book, but it follows the basic storyline. I enjoyed that the movie had an older child rescuing the baby.
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Zachary Drake
5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good movie
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024
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Excellent cast, strong precise dialogue & storyline that basically mirrors real life, in that it shows the blueprint for where the globalists/illuminati wants to take us for real. If you’ve never read the book & you go into the movie cold turkey, you’ll be shocked & confused a little at what’s going on but you’ll catch on quickly. It should definitely be viewed by every American to help them stay awake.
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Bryce L. Tidwell
5.0 out of 5 stars A Celebration of Life
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2015
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I really liked the story of The Giver. It really takes the viewer on a journey the character's revelation that their apparent utopia is actually a dystopian society where everything in life has been socially engineered in an attempt to remove all war, hate, and destruction by robbing humanity of its primal components of emotion, feeling, experience and memories of what it means to really be alive. In a sense evil has been socially engineered into tidy sanitized euphemisms with language that misleads the public's perception of what is really going on. SPOILER alert: When someone is euthanized in the dystopian society they are said to be “released to elsewhere”.

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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Valter
5.0 out of 5 stars Bellissimo!
Reviewed in Italy on September 18, 2021
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Per chi ama la fantascienza del genere futuro distopico, questo è un film bellissimo. Dopo un olocausto nucleare, esistono delle città assolutamente chiuse, dove chi ci vive NON sa niente del passato della terra, tranne il custode delle memorie. Essendo anziano, gli viene affidato un ragazzo giovane che dovrà diventare il nuovo custode, ma quando conoscerà il passato della terra ne sarà sconvolto, e tutto cambierà. Assolutamente da vedere per gli amanti del genere e per tutti, non è un vero e proprio film di fantascienza.
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Drolito
5.0 out of 5 stars Original et très bon film de Science-Fiction !
Reviewed in France on February 6, 2017
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"The Giver" est finalement et après réflexion, un beau film de SF comme je les aime... Certes, on pourra y voir un aspect assez simplifié de ce parallèle entre cette société aseptisée et très (trop) maîtrisée face à celle que dans laquelle on vit actuellement, mais qui en prend par certains côtés le même chemin inquiétant ! Mais il n'en reste pas moins que ce film est tout de même sacrément bien fichu pour plusieurs raisons. Tout d'abord, l'univers dans lequel vivent ces Hommes dépourvus d'émotions, de désirs et de tentations diverses, est franchement truffé de bonnes trouvailles allant des décors mêlant un peu de vintage à un design très pur dans ces maisons cubes, immaculées et toutes pareilles, jusqu'à la ville elle-même sorte de maquette soignée et tirée au cordeau où rien ne dépasse et où des vélos futuristes la parcourt en toute discrétion ! Ensuite, la description de cette société et de son mode de vie, sans renverser le genre, est un petit régal pour l'œil et pour les idées trouvées... De plus, cette histoire de passation afin de faire de Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) le nouveau "dépositaire de la mémoire" est bien pensée et fonctionne plutôt bien même si un certain lyrisme un peu appuyé est mis en place. Et au fond c'est aussi bien ainsi car justement, de ce monde carré, ordonné, géré, où l'amour, les émotions, le ressenti, sont bannis, on est en tant que spectateur complètement transporté quand le jeune élu s'éveille au contact de son passeur (de mémoire) doublé d'un sacré agitateur-perturbateur de pensée, interprété par Jeff Bridges ! Les images projetées et reçues à cette occasion par notre jeune héros (comme par le spectateur), sont assez émouvantes et la transformation qu'elles opèrent chez lui est très prenante. Les procédés employés, tel ce passage en douceur du noir et blanc à de délicates couleurs et l'évolution de Jonas par sa façon de regarder autrement les siens, sont emprunts d'une grande sensibilité ! Bien sûr, on pourra tiquer sur cette philosophie un peu facile, mais le fond de cette fable fait réfléchir plus que je ne le pensais... Et s'agacer peut-être d'une fin un peu tirée par les cheveux quoique pas si mal imaginée non plus et efficace elle aussi ! Mais grâce à un certain charme ouaté qui nous enveloppe dès le début, on prête à cette réalisation de Phillip Noyce, une certaine indulgence car elle n'a en fait rien que les quelques défauts de... ces qualités ! Une science-fiction douce et légère bien agréable loin d'être si caricaturale comme certains l'ont un peu trop facilement dénoncé en réduisant ce film à un presque navet !?
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Zeya
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book, fantastic movie!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2015
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Fantastic book, great movie! I loved the books (all 4 of them) and have just seen the film and will be watching it again. If you want the traditional 'baddie' and fights then this may not been the film for you. The bad 'guy' is the way of life and the 'fight' is the character who sees there is more to life than their way. This is another dystopian film with a scary concept of a future community. It makes you think about how we live and question what would an ideal community be like. I thought the cast were fantastic - you can't really go wrong with Meryl Streep, and Brenton Thwaites was great as the Receiver of Memories and someone who could see beyond and who begins to question things. Jeff Bridges was great as the Giver. The book, as usual gives more depth than the film, though here, the film was able to give depth in terms of location and bring the book to life in other ways. I would have liked the film to be longer and to give more detail on the way of life in this community, which you get from the book. It could also have given more in terms of Jonas receiving the memories and feeling things he had never before felt. Having said I loved the film - and i did - it didn't make me cry which is unusual for me with good films. If you like dystopian books and films I would highly recommend this film - to all ages. I really hope they make films of the other books.
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Takako
4.0 out of 5 stars 好きなストーリです
Reviewed in Japan on June 26, 2015
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海外からの送付でしたが、思ったより早く届きました。商品のコンディションも説明通りでした。
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。
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5.0 out of 5 stars Item received in good conditions
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2023
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