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WHAT'S IT ABOUT?
The Giver, based on the novel by Lois Lowry, is based on the idea of a "perfect world" where everyone is happy. The main character, Jonas, is chosen at 12 years old to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Jonas is trained by an old man known as The Giver. As training goes on, Jonas starts to realize that the world is not perfect. The Giver begins to teach Jonas about all of the war, pain, and tragedies that form the "real world". As Jonas realizes that his "perfect world" is in fact fake, he faces difficult choices to make.
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THE CAST
Meryl Streep as Chief ElderMeryl Streep plays Chief Elder, the elected leader of Jonas's community. The Chief Elder is responsible for assigning jobs to those in the Community. During The Giver, Chief Elder tries to contain her authoritarian community due to the suffering cause by Jonas's realizations.
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Brenton Thwaites as JonasThe eleven-year-old protagonist of The Giver, played by Brenton Thwaites . Sensitive and intelligent, with strange powers of perception that he doesn’t understand, Jonas is chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory for his community when he turns twelve. Even before his training, Jonas is unusually thoughtful, expresses great concern for his friends and family, and thinks it would be nice to be closer to other people. After his training begins, Jonas’s universe widens dramatically. His new awareness of strong emotions, beautiful colors, and great suffering makes him extremely passionate about the world around him and the welfare of the people he loves, though on the whole he remains level-headed and thoughtful.
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Jeff Bridges as the GiverThe old man known in the community as the Receiver of Memory. The Giver has held the community’s collective memory for many years and uses his wisdom to help the Committee of Elders make important decisions, even though he is racked by the pain his memories give him and believes that perhaps those memories belong in the minds of everyone in the community.
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