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The Giver (2014)
★ 6.6 · 4,621 ratings on TMDB
Search for truth. Find freedom.
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.
DirectorPhillip Noyce
The emergence reading
The Giver keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing memory, control, freedom, emotion, culture.
zero-distanceUSmemorycontrolfreedomemotionculture
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8emotionmandatory neuroleptic medication and genetic engineering reduce emotion to near zero for all citizens (technology · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Equilibrium (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Oblivion (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Minority Report (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Night at the Museum (2006)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
A Clockwork Orange (1971)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
