The Giver Comparison

The Giver Essay By Jordan Mahchehreh

Set in the future, the film 'The Giver' directed by Phillip Noyce similarly follows and portrays lessons that are conveyed through the original text written by Lois Lowry. Both Phillip Noyce and Lois Lowry similarly demonstrate that sameness is bad. Phillip Noyce honours the original text to a great extent with his close adaptation of the novel. Both Noyce and Lowry explore the meanings behind the text and aim to educate the audience about freedom of choice and how a utopian world is unachievable. In the film version of 'The Giver,' the director Phillip Noyce honours the original text by showing the worst of sameness. In the film, Phillip Noyce incorporated a scene where Jonas talks about how sometimes he would like to wear clothes that he picked out when he added this scene Phillip Noyce did a close up of Jonas' face to show the seriousness and emotion so he could get his message to the audience that …show more content…
One of the main messages of 'The Giver' is freedom, but more importantly freedom of choice. The film version equivalently covers this need therefor honouring the original text by Lois Lowry. One of many examples is that they cant choose their clothes that they want to wear in both the novel and the film showing that the film honours the original. Another example is that in the film the Chief Elder says that "When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong. Every single time." When the Chief Elder says this, she says it a soft but sinister tone whilst having a close up shot of her face to show the emotion, and to show that she is not joking. In saying this it shows that they have removed all trust and all freedom of choice in the film just like they did in the novel therefor the film adaptation of 'The Giver' honours the original text because the film version is spreading the same message as the