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Jeff Bridges Warns America – Get Engaged or Risk Totalitarian State
8/9/2014 1:50:22 AM
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After reading a review by a friend on FB I decided to share here too. Please Read..
"CLIMATE CONTROL", EUTHANASIA SOME OF THE TARGETS IN NEW ANTI-TOTALITARIAN FILM, " THE GIVER" --- Spoiler alert:
"Jonas, who is eleven years old, is apprehensive about the upcoming Ceremony where he will be assigned his job or his "assignment in the community." In his society little or no privacy is allowed; even private houses have two-way intercoms which can be used to listen in for infractions of the rules. However, the rules appear to be readily accepted by all, including Jonas. So it is without real protest that he initially accepts his selection as the Receiver of Memories, a job he is told will be filled with pain and the training for which will isolate him from his family and friends forever.
Yet, under the guidance of the present Receiver, a surprisingly kind man who has the same rare, pale eyes as Jonas, the boy absorbs memories that induce for the first time feelings of true happiness and love. Also, for the first time, Jonas knows what it is to see colors, to feel sunshine or see a rainbow, and to experience snow and the thrill of riding a sled down a hill. But then he is given the painful memories: war, pain, death, and starvation. These are memories of the Community's deep past. Jonas learns that the Community engineered a society of "sameness" to protect its people against this past, yet he begins to understand the tremendous loss he and his people have endured by giving their memories away, embracing "sameness", and using "climate control".
In his "community", which is under extreme control, there is no suffering, hunger, war, and, as also, no color, music, or love. Everything is controlled by "the Elders," who are looked upon in a very positive light, though they control whom you will marry, whom you receive as children, and what you will be "assigned" as a job. The people in the community do not have the freedom to choose. Jonas aches with this newfound wisdom and his desire for a life Elsewhere blossoms. But the final blow for Jonas comes when he asks the Receiver (who now calls himself "The Giver") what "release" is. The Giver says that he could show him, and allows Jonas to watch a present-day tape of his own father, a seemingly kind and loving man, "releasing" a baby twin by giving him a lethal injection. Like any other "aberration" from sameness, identical twins are against the rules, so the smaller of the two is dispatched like garbage, without the one who conducted the release understanding the true meaning of the action. Together, Jonas and the Giver come to the understanding that the time for change is now, that the Community has lost its way and must have its memories returned. The only way to make this happen is if Jonas leaves the Community, at which time the memories he has been given will flood back into the people. Jonas wants the Giver to escape with him, but the Giver insists that he will be needed to help the people manage the memories, or they will destroy themselves. The Giver also wants to remain behind so that when his work is done, he can be with his daughter: Rosemary, a girl with pale eyes who ten years earlier had failed in her training to become the new Receiver of Memories and who had asked to be released (the memories of pain and loneliness having overwhelmed her).
The Giver devises a plot in which Jonas will escape to Elsewhere, an unknown land that exists beyond the boundaries of the Communities. The Giver will make it appear as if Jonas drowned in the river so that the search for him will be limited. In the meantime, the Giver will give Jonas memories of strength and courage to sustain him and save up his meals as Jonas's food and water supply for his journey.
Their plan is changed when Jonas learns that Gabriel, the baby staying with his family unit, will be "released" the following morning. Jonas has become attached to the baby, who also has unusual pale eyes, and feels he has no choice but to escape with the infant. Without the memories of strength and courage promised by the Giver, Jonas steals his father's bike and leaves with Gabriel to find the Elsewhere. Their escape ride is fraught with dangers .................... "
http://www.conservativeinfidel.com/uncategorized/jeff-bridges-warns-america-get-engaged-risk-totalitarian-state/
Actor Jeff Bridges has a new project coming to theaters on August 15th, that relates directly to the direction America could be and quite likely is headed under the current regime and the socialist Democrat doctrine. It is a critical commentary on the world today for those who are willing to look see through a skeptical eye. The film, based upon a book by the same name is titled “The Giver.” It is set in a false utopian future in which the population does not realize the degree to which they are controlled and is totally unaware that it is possible for people to make their own choices and in the past people actually did. The film exposes the price that is paid when we embrace total security in exchange for the elimination of risk and reward. Communities replace disorder and emotions with daily injections of harmony feeding our addition to comfort. Strict adherence to “the rules” replaces choice. As the Meryl Streep character says, “When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong.” Bridges’ character is an aware and wise historian who works to take down the structure by allowing the truth that “the way things look and the way things are is very different” to leak out. Bridges said in an interview with Patheos.com “I think although the movie takes place in some future time that it is very reflective of our own and there’s a bit of a cautionary tale of how we humans roll and what we’re capable of. And the brutality and the subtleties of our brutality toward each other and also the love and the strength that’s inherent in us. Those times [McCarthyism] that you mention were certainly dark times that we struggled with. Human beings are still capable of that kind of thing. We need to be on guard for that and look for that. Not numb ourselves to it. Be engaged. One of the biggest challenges for us at this stage, I know for myself, is to not be cynical, you know, throw up our hands. We need to be engaged.” |