The Giver

Movie • 2014 • Drama  

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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.
This movie contains 21 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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dani
Hunters shoot an elephant for ivory; this scene is shown to share the memory of pain and is meant to be sad, but it is still difficult to watch.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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imaginethedragonss
Jonas is surveilled throughout the movie and is chased later on
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Is there domestic violence?
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imaginethedragonss
The people of the community are gaslighted by having memories held back from them
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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Toxik
A baby is killed with an injection for no reason.
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Addiction
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h3then
The entire population is on "a morning medication" taken daily via injection.
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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An elephant is shot by poachers.
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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EllieAdkinson
A male character was taught what kissing is, so he demonstrates it (against community rules) on a nervous and surprised female character without talking her through it. This part was not in the book. It can be hard to take.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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orangeapples
In the movie, no bones are broken during the sled scene.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Anonymous
technically, since jonas has a jonas of being pain all the time because they make him and it his job
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Toxik
A baby is killed with an injection.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
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Toxik
Jonas technically kidnapped Gabriel, but he did it to save him.
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Does a parent die?
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Does someone cheat?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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h3then
There is a scene wherein a living character, as well as a character that is known to have died, are shown, living, translucently, as ghost-like figures.
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Are there clowns?
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Anonymous
No shower scenes but in the book Jonas dreams he want to bathe Fiona in a bath but nothing sexual happens.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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fellowxfriends
This movie is completely SAFE!
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Technically there is a hospital in the film - for baby care. But it is mostly in a positive tone with birth and children.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Does someone self harm?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there misophonia?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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orangeapples
A character is found in the middle of a flashback of a war scene that plays on the screen.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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h3then
A character "asks to be released" (government mandated lethal injection)
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Is there shakey cam?
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orangeapples
All the flashbacks are shot with shakey cam that could possibly be described as strobe lights.
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orangeapples
Multiple flashbacks/memories shown in this movie are filmed with strobe lights. As someone who isn’t affected by strobe lighting, it even made me feel ill.
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
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orangeapples
There is no footage of labour, but there are scenes of a nursery and a character holding a newborn child with their parents in the background.
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Are there abortions?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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imaginethedragonss
Not really misgendering, but in the beginning, Asher makes a joke about Jonas being assigned the job of a birthmother.
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imaginethedragonss
Yes, the first graphic death scene is when a black man dies at war
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is there hate speech?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there n-words?
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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imaginethedragonss
After Jonas escapes, his motorcycle becomes unusable, but there is no graphic crash.
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
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h3then
There is a semi-graphic scene portraying war.
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Is there blood/gore?
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imaginethedragonss
There is blood/gore during a war flashback
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Does someone drown?
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Toxik
Jonas and Gabriel fall in a river, but none of them drowned.
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orangeapples
An elephant is graphically shot with a gun.
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