Imagine a world where books don’t exist. Love has been eliminated. Everything that differentiates you from others is squashed. There is no first love because there is no love. And the miracle of life has been compartmentalized into a duty or societal function.
This is what we meet when we’re introduced to Jonas (Brendan Thwaites) and his friends, Fiona (Odeya Rush) and Asher (Cameron Monaghan). Three kids on the verge of adulthood will soon find their place in the society for which they belong. They’ll be given a purpose, not asked to choose one themselves.
But what fate awaits Jonas cannot be predicted. He’s been selected to be the community’s next “Receiver of Memories.” The one who holds all the knowledge of the past so that society can live in the future without regret or ambition, only caring for what is going on presently.
If you’ve already read my book review of The Giver by Lois Lowry
