Never even heard of this, give me the untainted skinny buddum.

Well, I read it over half my lifetime ago, so this will be rough.

As I remember it, everyone takes a pill to live unassuming lives free of testosterone / estrogen. However, one person has to have the feelings about all these things to warn everyone else against them. Also, the pill makes you colourblind, but that goes away when you stop taking the pill. MORAL OF STORY: Human life isn't worth living without the desire to fuck other humans.

Sucks that they didn't do a pleasantville kind of deal and introduce the colours slowly of mid-movie, whatever. I hope the movie has a lot of awkward boner jokes in it.
Thanks for the rundown buster, I can dig it.

I was just about to say that, at this rate, Pleasantville is a far better movie version of The Giver than The Giver.

The original was a mild suburban dystopia that actually seemed kinda nice at first. A little kooky with politically correct speech, but reminiscent of early Pyongyang in that it's clean and things work even if they're not super-fancy.

Then you start seeing the gradual rotting belly of the world and how the state is more than happy to kill its citizens in the name of preserving order. However, it was all handled in a subtle, low-key tone.

This looks like Equilibrium Lite.

Nothing in Pyongyang works.

This movie looks like a really shitty version of Brave New World. I never read the book but reading the synopsis bored me to tears.

During the heyday of North Korea in the immediate post-war period, Pyongyang was actually seen as quite prosperous and industrialized in comparison to the South. Quite a few Chinese also made the choice to move to North Korea because it was seen as cleaner and more stable than their own places. Then the Iron Curtain came down and everything went to shit.

I liked Brave New World well enough. It's probably the most believable of all the sci-fi dystopias in that there the state controls through pleasure as opposed to the more Orwellian fear and repression.

Equilibrium was a better adaptation of The Giver than this.

Weird that you talk (correctly) about North Korea and then, not 20 words later, begin to dismiss Orwellian totalitarianship as unbelievable.

Hooker, yeah perhaps I misspoke when I said "believable" when the term "relevant" may have been more appropriate. While Orwellian dystopia is rightly seen as a sort of political boogeyman, Huxley was far closer to the path that the developed world is heading towards.

"We didn't pay a bazillion dollars for this fucking eye-popping super colour technology so you could be true to the source material and film in black n' white, Mr. HORSE SHIT!"

We didn't pay a bazillion dollars for CGI space battles so you could be true to the source material and have Ender controlling a bunch of triangles on a map!