Imagine living in a world without memories and living a colorless life. A world where your life is planned the second you are born. A place where you do not have the right to express any opinions and forced to hide away your own character. The Giver (Dir. Phillip Noyce) is a fantasy/drama film where people are fighting for their memories, individuality and freedom of speech while something similar is happening in the real world. In the film, there are various scenes where The Giver is passing on memories to The Receiver, Jonas, and slowly showing him the real world. The world in which we are fighting for our memories. Memories that we treasure because it has made us who we are and not being able to say “I remember that” is the hardest part …show more content…
People are fighting to help their loved ones to keep their memories same thing Jonas is doing in the film The Giver (Dir. Phillip Noyce). He tries to give everyone back the life they never saw or never remember. What is the reason why we do not support Alzheimer’s disease like we should? We do not know if that next person could be a loved one. The Importance of memory is what makes us who we are and we do not want to give that up and we do not want our loved ones to give up …show more content…
Phillip Noyce) portrays the lack of individuality, something it is being exposed in the real world. The world with the flaws that are being kept from the people in the film. In the film The Giver (Dir. Phillip Noyce), people do not see color, they do what The Elder tells them is right making them think that it is right. When in reality, it is all wrong. A scene from the movie shows that killing a twin because the baby is weaker is right. That they are helping the baby instead of having it live a traumatic life. People lack character, their own character who makes them different, but in that society, everyone must be equal. In our world, some try to be like other, but they have their own character. But everything has changed in our world, instead of helping people gain individuality, it is being taken away. In an article from BBC, Hannah Richardson