In the 2014 movie “The Giver,” Jonas discovers a secret chamber inside the Chief Elder’s office. This area contains videos of all previous recipients of memory from years prior. In one of the videos, he sees a woman who appears to be held hostage in a room with no windows – the only items there being a bed and some books. The woman is nicknamed “the woman who was kept on a shelf” and has apparently been there for years. It sounds like she was once a part of the Memory Keeper program but couldn’t handle the burden of all those memories, causing her to go insane and be isolated from the world.
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The movie is set in the near future. After the end of a great war called the Ruin, civilization collapsed and over 90% of the population perished. Some people in North America built a community, one of true equality, whose building blocks are a set of rules. All the children born in the community learn rules like using precise language, only wearing clothes assigned to them, taking morning injections, ob bang, the curfew, always telling the truth, et cetera.
No one in the community has. Name and all of their memories have been wiped out. In their world, differences are not allowed, and there is no fame, no losers and no winners. The elders eliminated all of that so that there would be no conflict between anyone. Color, fear, pain, envy and hate are alien to them.
In the past, history of mankind has been concealed forever. It is a world without PewDiePie. The movie follows the story of a young teenager named Jonas and his best friends, Asher and Fiona as they’re ushered into adulthood. Adulthood is a big deal, especially for this community because it is when children are assigned a job that they will have to carry out for the rest of their lives.
Asher and Fiona are excited about the graduation, but Jonas is nervous as he still doesn’t know his purpose and feels lost. Jonas has always felt different from other children. He sees things differently than others. Asher is the joker of the group. While Fiona is someone who makes everyone smile, it is the day before the graduation ceremony and the three friends are at the nurturing center for their volunteer work because things like love and relationships are forbidden in this community.
All humans are genetically engineer. Newly born babies are kept in this center intended to by a team of medical staff and volunteers. They’re then assigned to a family where they will continue living until they become adults. Fiona loves working with children and she wishes the elders would give her some job at the nurturing center.
Jonas’s. Father David, who works at the center, asks Fiona to calm a crying baby if she really has what it takes to become a nurse. To his surprise, she effortly does this with a simple touch of her hand. David then reveals that the baby’s name is Gabe and that he. Three months old. After finishing their shift, the trio returns to their homes before the curfew.
In the next scene, Jonas is having dinner with his family where he suddenly asks his parents if they were nervous before they were assigned to their current positions. However, David assures him that the elders have been watching him closely since he was a baby, so they know where to put ’em. Jonas’s mother, Linda, then reveals.
That a local teacher has been to a rehabilitation camp of some sorts. When David asks if there was any other choice, she mentions that the other choice was a place called Elsewhere. The next day at the annual ceremony of advancement, the chief elder of the community addresses the audience virtually through a hologram.
After a while, the ceremony begins with the release of the elderly citizens who have spent all their lives working for the community. Now they will be. To elsewhere where they will retire. It is followed by the assigning of the new children engineered by the community’s geneticists. Finally, the sheeler assigns the adult kids to their positions.
During the ceremony, Jonas notices an old man looking over at him one by one, each kid gets their job. Asher is given the job of a drone pilot while Fiona is assigned to be in the nurturing center, something she was dreaming. Jonas eager, eagerly waits for his turn, but he has skipped over and all the other kids are announced.
In the end, chief Elder finally calls out his name and reveals that he hasn’t been assigned a job because he has been selected for something bigger. She states that Jonas has all four attributes, intelligence, integrity, courage, and an ability to look beyond, all of which convinced the elders to select him as the new receiver of memories.
She tells a puzzle, Jonas, that his training involves. Pain that he can’t even fathom at last. Jonas is given a triangular drive and everybody starts chanting his name. The next day. Jonas heads for his training at a small house on the edge of the community cliff overlooking a vast skyline. From now on, he is exempt from all rules governing rudeness.
That means he can ask questions to people, lie to them. And even crack jokes. However, aside from his daily medicine, he can’t receive other medicines, especially painkillers. He also can’t discuss his training with anyone, not even his family. As Jonas slowly enters the house, he comes across a large library where he meets the old man from the ceremony.
The man. Is the giver who will pass on memories of the past to the receiver. These memories are the secret history of the world dating generations back. No one else in the community has a history of the past, and when the elders require any guidance on matters that are beyond their experience, the giver provides wisdom, wasting no time.
The man grabs both of Jonas’s wrists and sends him into a memory of snowy woods There. Jonas rides a sled down a snowy hill, something which he has never experienced. Even heard of soon, he comes across a mysterious looking cabin and the next second Jonas snaps out of his memory, amazed. He asks the giver why they don’t have sleds or snow in their community, and the latter responds that it was a very distant memory and there’s no snow anymore because of climate control.
He continues that sleds require snow and snow requires cold, which destroys crops and makes transportation of food difficult. Jonas asks to see more, but the man takes him outside for some fresh air. During the walk, Jonas inquires about the person who was chosen to be the receiver before him, but the giver response.
With silence that night, baby Gabe is brought to Jonas’s home by a nurse from the nurturing center, still crying. The family has been assigned to watch over him until he catches up. Meanwhile, Jonas notices a mark on Gabe’s wrist, the same mark that he and the giver have on the exact same spot. This makes him realize that Gabe will also be selected as the receiver of memories someday.
As the days pass, Jonas continues to train under the giver and stops taking his daily injections. Because of this, he experiences pain for the first time when he is bitten by a bee. In his memory, he also starts seeing. Colors around him. Later, Jonas meets up with his friends for a brief reunion. Asher talks about how he’s been able to fly the drones close to elsewhere.
He describes it as an isolated place with two rocks touching at the top, forming a triangle. After a while, Asher heads to work and the other two start having fun. They slide down a slope and scream out loud, disturbing everyone in the area. At the bottom of the slope, Jonas goes over to help Fiona up, but a voice through the PA system announces that they cannot touch people outside their family.
I know what you’re thinking, Jonas, but you can’t receive that. Meanwhile, the giver meets with the chief elder over his training with Jonas. She warns him to take it easy with the boy, reminding him to not repeat the mistake he made with the last receiver, who apparently committed the unthinkable. In the next session, Jonas finds a map on the library floor.
In it. He notices his home and the triangular rock that Asher told him about. The cliff is marked as a boundary of the memory. Jonas wonders if the memories will be released if a receiver crosses the boundary. As he continues inquiring about it, the giver changes the topic and shows Jonas a piano, which amazes him.
Giver reveals that the daily injections take away emotions of the community members and make them dull. Saying this, he holds Jonas’s hand and takes him to a party place where people are dancing and having a great time there. Jonas also sees. Kissing Fiona passionately over the course of the next few days.
Jonas experiences all the wonders and calamities of the ancient world. He learns about different religions, cultures, and even witnesses. A child being born, the giver warns him about the tremendous cruelty of the past, but Jonas insists on seeing more. His wish is eventually granted, but little did he know about the horror he is going to witness.
When Jonas sees an elephant being brutally shot down, he breaks into tears that. At home. Jonas notices Fiona combing her hair through his window and feels a weird sensation. He thinks about it for a while and finally realizes that he is in love. Later, he asks his parents if they love him, but Linda tells him to use precise language.
She mentions that the word is antiquated and that it no longer has any application. However, Jonas becomes obsessed with the word and tells baby Gabe that he loves him causing the ladder to. The next day, Jonas finds the giver collapsed on the floor, worried he rushes to his side and grabs his hand. Just then, Jonas witnesses a memory where he finds himself in the position of a soldier.
His partner has been gunned down and there are dead bodies everywhere, terrified by what he just saw. Jonas storms out of the house immediately, despite the giver’s attempts to stop him in a flashback sequence. It has revealed that the previous receiver, a teenage girl named Rosemary, was also dis. By the images that she saw later, Jonas meets Fiona and angrily tells her that he is quitting his job.
This, of course, doesn’t sit well with Fiona, so she reminds him of the punishment for quitting, which is being sent away to elsewhere. However, Jonas could care less and he instead advises her to stop taking her morning injections that numb the emotions. He also asks her to meet in the triangle the next day.
Fi. Agrees, but only under the condition that he will return to his job. In the next scene, Jonas returns to his training house where he sees a memory of the giver playing the piano alongside Rosemary as he watches. In shock, the real giver explains that after witnessing death, Rosemary became so horrified that she asked to be released from her duty.
Hearing this, Jonas assumes that she’s still. And elsewhere, but the giver tells him that elsewhere is death. He then shows Jonas a video projection of his father in the nurturing center with a baby that is deemed too weak in the video, David injects something into the baby’s head, killing it instantly.
The strange thing is that he doesn’t even know what he is doing. David is simply carrying out his work that he was assigned. Jonas is taken aback by the revelation, and he argues that people should be given their memory so that they know what they’re doing. However, the giver tells him that he can’t do anything about it.
The next morning, Jonas meets Fiona and gets to know that she took his advice and skipped her injections, so without wasting any time, he takes her to a secluded spot and kisses her for the first time. Fiona is amazed by the sensation and Jonas tells her that there’s a lot more that she hasn’t seen.
Afterwards, he returns home and learns that baby Gabe is set to be released the next day because he has failed his maturity test. Alarmed Jonas sneaks out at night to save his little brother. He rushes to the giver’s house and asks for help, and the ladder says that there is only one way. Jonas will have to cross the boundary of the edge and release.
All the memories. This will turn the zombie-like beings into humans once again. Meanwhile, chief Elder finds out about jonas’s plants and immediately contacts the giver via a hologram. She wants to know his exact location, but the giver lies to her and sends her away. He then shows Jonas array of memories to make him stronger and hands him the map before sending him.
After a while, Jonas makes it to the nurturing center where he meets Fiona. He anxiously explains the entire predicament to her, and surprisingly she agrees to help the two then search for baby Gabe around the facility and once they find him, Fiona kisses Jonas one last time. She then creates a distraction for the incoming guards, allowing Jonas enough time to escape with the baby on a motorcycle.
He is still being watched by the elders though, but once he makes it outside the c. They will lose track of him as a last resort. The chief elder orders Asher to use his drone and finish off the runaway boys. The latter is a bit hesitant, but he agrees to do it for the sake of his people. Soon he flies his drone outside the community and eventually locates.
Jonas running across the desert without any remorse. Asher pulls his former best friend with a beam, and it appears as if he’s going to execute him however. To everyone’s surprise, he simply drops Jonas into a river, allowing him to flee elsewhere. The elders watch video footage of Fiona kissing and helping Jonas.
Thus, she is apprehended and brought into a chamber where Jonas’s father is ready to release her into elsewhere. The giver, chief Elder, and everyone else also arrived to witness the event. The Giver is against the brutality, and he tries to change the elder’s decision by revealing that Rosemary was actually his own daughter.
He loved her, cared for her, and wanted. To stay, but despite his will, she was sent to elsewhere from which she never returned. The speech is a moving one. However, that she felt her is not phased at all. So she orders David to inject Fiona immediately. On the other hand, Jonas has reached a snowy place just like what he saw in his memories.
He also finds the sled with the help of which he and Gabe finally crossed the borders of the imaginary world. This triggers a massive reaction causing all the memories and colors to return to the c. Everybody begins to feel again, and Fiona is saved from her impending demise in the nick of time. In the final scene, we see a near frozen Jonas still carrying Gabe and walking through the bitterly cold snowy woods.
Soon he finds the cabin from earlier in the movie. He thinks he hears people inside singing, though it could merely be an echo, whatever happens, Jonas acknowledges that the giver has given him and his brother a new hope. The movie ends as Jonas and the infant. Enter the cabin.