'The Giver' - Movie Dystopia Resonates Today
September 2, 2016
Movie describes post apocalyptic society.
"Jonas cannot believe that Community would ban all beauty, all grace, all normalcy and redefine human existence along such rigid, drab lines. There's no winners, no losers, no love, no hate, no music, no fear, no memory, no dancing and no "lies," except for the fact that Community is one Big Lie."
By The Truth Hound
"The Giver" is an intriguing movie which offers a glimmer of hope in a hopeless world, while describing the kind of society in which we're held captive.
In this 2014 movie, available on Netflix, a young man, Jonas, is at first content living in a post-apocalyptic "utopia" where he's surrounded by totally like-minded friends. They were all born in a lab after a calamity ("The Ruin") nearly extinguished humanity and brought about a reconfiguration of society.
While nurturing the remnant of humanity back to "health," the State has completely rejected the "messiness" of past human existence.
Natural child birth is forbidden. Marriage doesn't exist. Infants are matched with state-assigned, man-and-woman couples. The state seems benevolent and largely acceptable in its outward appearance.
The "families" that the state puts together cannot feel the devotion of actual blood-related siblings. Education assigns everyone their lifelong role.
Cameras with listening devices are everywhere. Rallies are held so everyone is constantly reminded to consent and conform--all for one and one for all--or else.
Most forbidden is any knowledge of history. People in this society literally have no memories and certainly no history. When all the young adults attend a mandatory society-wide gathering where everyone is assigned their roles, Jonas is the last one assigned his role. Jonas is the one entrusted to be the "Receiver of Memory" and will commune with "The Giver."
Meryl Streep is the emotionally-frozen State leader under which the Giver serves. (Here we get a glimpse of the brutish woman "president" thing, a 'la Hillary Clinton or Theresa May and it's ugly).
She can invade any domicile at any time for any reason by appearing as a hologram. Her central role is to make sure that historical knowledge remains suppressed, and that things like childbirth, real families, pain and suffering, true joy, personal sovereignty, etc. are not known, much less practiced, by her society at-large.
The Giver is superbly played by Jeff Bridges. Jonas is profoundly affected by what he learns. He is given visions of past wars and harrowing atrocities, but also of true love, natural childbirth, real siblings, gatherings with actual family and friends, adventure and so on.
As this awakening continues, he realizes he loves a fellow citizen, a lovely young lady named Fiona. The Giver tells him about love being perhaps the most precious thing of all.
It turns out that Jonas has that genuine human "spark" that the state wishes to extinguish. And because The Giver is a highly moral man (who carefully conceals this fact in his official contacts and duties), he and his apprentice collude to overthrow this artificial society.
"Memories are not just about the past . . . they can change things, make things better," The Giver tells his apprentice, echoing George Orwell's warning, "Those who control the past, control the future."
The Giver goes on to tell Jonas that the state that runs this antiseptic world, a state that calls itself "Community," made it a central policy to "end all color, all race, religion . . . they created sameness." This statement addresses apparent Illuminati goals in real life.
To cut through that sameness, The Giver plays a grand piano for Jonas, who is brought to tears. The Giver also gives Jonas a vivid vision of snow sledding, which brings the young man untold enjoyment. In the vision, the sled leads to an idyllic home in the woods, with which Jonas feels a strong connection. The Giver explains that a "home" is something that used to exist and was totally different than the "dwellings" of Community.
The Giver, interestingly, explains that snow no longer exists due to climate control.
Some aspects of Community seem positive, such as banning war, reducing breakneck competition, ending the obsession with fame, and bringing some necessary direction to society. Jonas is given a glimpse of being a soldier in Vietnam and he's terrified at such cruelty. This briefly makes him pause at the supposed glories of the past. But, with wisdom comes pain, The Giver tells Jonas.
The Community goes too far in its regulations. A strict curfew is enforced against all. And everyone in Community is required to take their morning injections of a drug that makes everyone docile--a hint at fluoride's likely effects in municipal water and the forcible vaccination and drugging of society in our "real" world.
One of the things that turns Jonah into a hero is witnessing his assigned "father" perform one of his state duties, which is to kill unwanted babies.
This "abortion" of a living, viable infant, surprisingly enough, gives this movie a decidedly anti-abortion theme. The movie has its imperfections, such as when it shows a snapshot of Nelson Mandela as if he were a real hero of the past, when in real life he was a butcher.
Nevertheless, we see Jonas become an example of what newfound knowledge can do to unravel the infrastructure of the powers-that-be.
Thus, The Giver makes each viewer a Receiver--a "Jonas," who can apply key lessons to return our world to morality and normalcy.
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Comments for "'The Giver' - Movie Dystopia Resonates Today"
Dan said (September 2, 2016):
Sounds like a Hillary and Google wet dream of Utopia.
Actually, the movie is probably a documentary about California in the future - 2017!
Hutch said (September 3, 2016):
By coincidence - The Giver was on TV tonight. My wife asked how did he (The Receiver) break free from 'the community'. My answer was... anyone can achieve their freedom by simply being aware of 'the big lie'. Awareness makes us the Giver. Once you understand that everything is a fabricated, orchestrated, monstrous lie you are on a real life journey. Living means enjoying your life to the fullest (truth, beauty, family, GOD, music, art, accepting joy and hardship) and only by doing this can you defeat the Controllers.
As a side note - they always blame or indicate we (the people) are the source of all misery, the source of all problems, the source of all wars, hunger, mass deaths. They never blame the Controllers (aka Illuminati Rothschild World). Their arrogance forces them to expose themselves in plain sight. Connect the dots.
Expose them.
Become the Giver.