2014 · drama · sci-fi
The Giver
Directed by Phillip Noyce1h 37m2014
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Our read: The Giver (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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