‘The Giver’ Movie: Tyranny Overcome By the Human Spirit
By The Truth Hound (see the official trailer to this movie above)
“The Giver” is an intriguing movie which offers a glimmer of hope in a hopeless world, while serving as an apt metaphor for the kind of society in which we’re captive while thinking we’re free.
This 2014 Canadian-American-South African movie was recently brought out on Netflix. In it, a young man, assigned the name Jonas, at first is just as content as everyone else—living in a post-apocalyptic “utopia” where he’s surrounded by totally like-minded friends. They all began as babies born in a lab after a calamity called “The Ruin” nearly extinguished humanity and brought about a total reconfiguration of what was left of society.
The state, citing this horrific past, while nurturing the remnant of humanity back to its definition of health, has completely rejected the “messiness” of past human existence. (Everything is depicted in black and white to emphasize the state’s sterile worldview).
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 purely outward appearance.
The “families” that the state arranges cannot feel the true bond and devotion of actual blood-relations. Education is attuned to assigning everyone to their unchosen 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.
But the thing that’s most forbidden is any knowledge whatsoever of history. This people in this society, even if they can dimly recall their unremarkable “yesterdays,” have no memories to speak of and certainly no history. This aspect of the movie is portrayed in a most interesting and instructive way.
When all the young adults attend a mandatory society-wide gathering where everyone is assigned their roles, Jonas is the last one to be given his role by the state. Being the last man standing is significant, for everyone in attendance knows what it means: Jonas is the one entrusted to be the “Receiver of Memory” and will commune with “The Giver.”
The Giver is superbly played by Jeff Bridges. Meryl Streep is the emotionally-frozen state leader under which he 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 strictly confined, and that things like childbirth, real families, pain and suffering, true joy, personal sovereignty, etc. are never, ever known, much less practiced, by her society at-large.
Yet, the young man chosen to learn from The Giver—simply so he can become the next Giver when the older one passes away—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 as being perhaps the most precious thing of all.
It turns out that Jonas has that genuine human “spark” that the state’s scientific leaders thought they had fully extinguished. 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 anti-septic 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’s brought to tears at such beauty. 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—which is one of many hints in this movie of what governments are doing and where they’re headed, in seeking total surveillance and control.
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.
There are some aspects of Community that are worthy of emulation, 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.
True to the painful lessons of unchecked power, however, Community goes too far in its regulations, leading inexorably to domination. A strict curfew is enforced against all. And everyone in Community is required to use dispensers built into every dwelling with which 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.
Notably, Jonas, as the “Receiver,” meets with The Giver for several sessions in a cabin-like structure near the very edge of Community, right next to where the “Boundary of Memory” is located. Beyond that is a forbidden zone, a wild land that contains traces of the past that few are supposed to see. Curiously, the movie gives the viewer the subtle impression that the earth is more like a plane, not a globe. Make of that what you will.
While readers should watch the movie to see all the gritty details and several unexpected twists and turns, one of the things that turns the protagonist into our 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 pro-life theme, which is no small matter in terms of the movie industry’s usual ultra-liberal, anti-natal philosophy. And 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 sold to us as a hero by Big Media and its government allies.
Nevertheless, we see Jonas become an example of what newfound knowledge can do to unravel the infrastructure of the powers-that-be, if that knowledge is focused and yielded in such a way that reveals the Big Lie for all to see.
Thus, The Giver makes each viewer a Receiver—a “Jonas,” if you will —who can apply key lessons to return our world to morality and normalcy.
While the movie doesn’t get into the money question, we, the living must start by permanently removing the control of interest-bearing money creation and credit-creation from the hands of the private central bankers who, if left unchecked, will use their supreme monetary leverage to drive us into the abyss. THAT LEVERAGE MUST BE REMOVED. WE MUST ALL AGREE ON THIS ONE PRIME ACTION.
If not, the few survivors would have it much worse than those in Community.
I bought the blueray for my brother for xmas. Not sure if he knows whats up but I tried.
Bravo Mark – outstanding analysis! Thank you. Communitarianism and its direct connection to the implementation [and enforcement] of communitarian law defines our present reality to a tee. The storyline scripted and presented in the film’s trailer though… styles it cryptically… and entirely too simply… as that omnipresent capital-C word… “Community”.
Do an online search:
What is a communitarian?
http://www.truedemocracy.net/hj32/17.html
What is communitarianism?
http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/thread-1081.html
What in the world is communitarianism?
http://nord.twu.net/acl/research/communitar.html
“The New World Order” (1939) -H.G. Wells (He described it as “world-socialism”.)
“Whether we’re taught it or not, we’re all communitarians now.” -Niki Raapana, 2004
“We are all socialists now” -Jon Meacham, Newsweek Magazine cover/article, 2009
“Marxists are de jure socialists and fascists are de facto socialists. They are both, however, socialists. The result of both types of socialism is the same: centralized governmental control of the means of production and the economy.”
http://www.newsweek.com/we-are-all-socialists-now-82577
http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5713
What the communitarians stand for
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communitarian/niki.htm
What is communitarian law?
http://nord.twu.net/acl/research/commlaw.html
Community ‘acquis’ is the EU’s new body of ‘communitarian law’. In the Information Age – in a time of actual, speedily ever-encroaching Technological Slavery… alongside ‘free trade’… in a command-and-control… ‘dirigiste’ economy… with regulatory ‘engrenage’… and cradle-to-grave ‘obuchenie’ – is it any wonder why many of us alive in this plane of existence today might be thought of [no doubt] by some technocrat somewhere , alternately, as… ‘unwitting dupes’, ‘useful idiots’… or even ‘worthless eaters’?
Where would ‘the bad guys’ be… without those fancy-dancing… eager-to-please ‘technologists’? Those ever-loving ‘techies’? Remember? “We have met the enemy and he is us.” -Pogo | See also: “Frenemy”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquis_communautaire
http://www.humanjourney.us/axemaker.html Must we yield… to the ‘axemaker’s gift’?
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ht4gh2v4h9ilgex/Kaczynski+-+Technological+Slavery.pdf
Dirigiste http://invisibleserfscollar.com/why-the-world-makes-far-more-sense-if-you-add-dirigisiste-to-the-things-you-understand/
Engrenage http://invisibleserfscollar.com/gypsy-principals-gypsy-supers-and-engrenage-3-more-superb-things-to-know/
Obuchenie http://invisibleserfscollar.com/?s=obuchenie&submit=Search
Also search: Search: POP… COPS… COMPASS… ABCD… FALCON… JINSA… LEEP… ‘broken window theory’… ‘communitarian law enforcement’… The Story of Stuff (YouTube)… The End of Suburbia (YouTube)… ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’ (Bill Joy)… ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’… ‘The ABC’s of Communitarianism’… Alfred Korzybski’s ‘theory of general semantics’… Norbert Weiner’s ‘theory of cybernetics’… ‘Jacques Derrida – Father of our Cultural Breakdown’… ‘Cultural Marxism: The Doom of Language’… ‘The Leipzig School’ (Dr. Dennis Cuddy)… ‘Frankfurt School’… “The Quest for Community” (Robert Nizbet, 1953)
What is the Hegelian dialectic?
http://web.archive.org/web/20070907045324/http://nord.twu.net/acl/dialectic.html
http://www.realityvideo.org/HEGELIANDIALECTIC.HTML
What is reflexive law?
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/reflexive-law/
The Constitution in 2020
http://keywiki.org/Constitution_2020
Watch: Watch: Expert Series – The Constitution in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZJKL9v6sqM&feature=channel
Watch: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – The Fabian Society, Communitarianism, and the New World Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v0rFND55Ow&hd=1
Watch: John Maynard Keynes and Economic Fascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnUUMs9WIC0
“The Fabians were more realistic than the Marxian socialists. They understood that it is much easier to subvert sons, daughters and wives of the prominent and well-to-do than it is to impress the laboring classes. They also understood, that socialist movements spring from the middle and upper classes—and not from the proletariat.” -Keynes at Harvard
Watch: UNESCO and the Deliberate Dumbing Down of the Western World (Soundtrack muted…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjer4fTUA-I
Break a leg down there in Austin this weekend! Look these folks up (courtesy of today’s Google Alert, for the keyword ‘communitarian’)! https://psmag.com/when-it-comes-to-fighting-obesity-it-takes-a-village-1341fd5617a6#.mm2d0idet
Thanks Lark. I do think that, at times, the US livestyle is almost too individualistic, even though a Communitarian state like the one shown in The Giver is suffocating and evil. In other words, there is such a thing as the well-being of a community (small c) and the public at-large, which is roughly equal to the need for individual well-being. BOTH truly matter. Humans live mainly individual lives but also require association to function. See http://www.socred.org for something a bit different
Oops, I meant lifestyle…….