The things in a person’s life become memories, and memories create feelings and emotions. The movie The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce attempts and fails to create a visual representation of a dystopian world where memories are eliminated from the everyday lives of the community’s people. The movie takes on the risk of following a somewhat different approach from its book which ultimately leads to the movie’s downfall. The characters in this movie are not portrayed in the best possible way they could be portrayed in. For example, the main character Jonas is stated to be twelve but is acted by Brenton Thwaites who was around twenty years old at the time. The same thing can be said about the two of Jonas’s friends, Fiona and Asher — the actors look too grown up to successfully play their character’s role. Although Jeff Bridges, who plays the Giver, had fine acting. The Giver’s role is supposedly the elder of the Elders since they occasionally …show more content…
There was one part in the movie where Jonas’s shirt was changed out of nowhere which clearly didn’t go unnoticed. Additionally, the part where the room is filled with people chanting Jonas’s felt awkward especially when Jonas sits down and Fiona looks at Jonas while still chanting his name. And despite all this, Jonas, said to be twelve, doesn’t give any sort of reaction to the creepy atmosphere or the fact literally everyone around him is saying his name nonstop.
Despite the fact that the movie was poorly done, there are also some adequate parts to it. The first memory Jonas is given that dives deep into color was done well in terms of how visually appealing it was. The flow of colors and the specific images used to represent them were beautiful and as states before, visually appealing. Jonas punching Asher was also a part of the movie that was well done. It felt like Jonas was finally acting like a twelve year old as he resorted to violence when things didn’t go his