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Admirable film.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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

Not having read the book as I was in high school at another country, I was not aware this movie is considered a young adult fare.I was bored throughout while I anticipated the obvious storyline from the get go. This could have been a 30 minute "Twilight Zone" episode and still come off preachy. This topic has been approchaed before ("Logan's Run" is similar) and I believe it could have been developed better.Young adults can think for themselves and don't have to be soon fed morality games with obvious bias towards what is good vs. evil, moral/ethical, etc. I couldn't wait for the movie to end and then forget i ever saw it.I believe there are plenty of worthwhile stories young adults can read that can provoke discussions about social issues better than this.

I'll start by saying that I did read the book many years ago in school and thought it was a good book at the time with an interesting, unexpected twist. I never went back to re-read it so while I knew what the gist of the story was, I didn't remember all the details.As a movie, I thought it was just OK. It wasn't bad, but there were several things keeping it from being great. First, the focus was on Jonas and The Giver moreso than any of the other characters, which made it hard to sympathize with the society. The actor playing Jonas was fine, not very memorable though. I would have liked to understand the perspectives of Fiona and Asher rather than just see them the way Jonas does - in broad strokes. The release of memories from The Giver to Jonas could have been shown or explained differently as I did not really understand how that process worked. Were they sharing a psychic link? Was there a chip embedded in their wrists allowing the transfers? Also, sometimes Jonas would see things as if he were living the past memories while other times it was more like he was seeing everything play out like a movie or something. Finally, the ending was not very satisfying. I won't spoil anything but there were things that happened that did not feel realistic or believable at all. The final scene was confusing. I would say if you have nothing else to watch and are interested in a fairly PG story, this is a pretty good one. So many TV and movies are so focused on violence, sex, and darkness that it is kind of nice to have a straight forward movie that makes you think a little in the process of watching it.

This is a a dystonian world everyone is happy and peaceful but without emotions or free will. Until the main character shows up.We have been here before, but this is a nice attempt at a retelling. The production and camera work is quite nice and the acting is pretty good. The awakening of the senses is well handled and is the high light of the film.For me though this film was doomed from the start. The dystopia is actually quite appealing. We are told that no one has emotions, yet they do - otherwise the audience wouldn't engage with the characters - they are just dialled right back. So the writers have to throw in random problems to make the world worth rebelling against. So all of a sudden people are drowning babies for no apparent reason.The writing really fails near the end. As restrictive dystopias go the inhabitants here sure get a lot of space when they go rouge.Then with a few minutes of screen time left the writers have to end this thing some how. This seems an impossible task, so they throw a smoke bomb on the floor and do a runner out the fire escape in the confusion.Has promise and some really nice sequences, but is ultimately baffling and stupid.