The scene in which The Giver plays the piano for Jonas, opening his ears to music. I do not take any credit for the making of this film. Everything depicted is from the motion picture The Giver by Lois Lowry
"Feelings are just fleeting, on the surface. But emotions, they are very deep, primal, they linger . . . You might not understand where you are or what's happening, but don't *think* about what you are seeing. LISTEN.... _listen_ to what is calling from inside."
+CrazyMix23 I read the book first. The movie adds so much to the book! It just like changes half the story! Still, the movie was great. The only thing I wish they didn't change was that in the book Jonas is 12, in the movie he is 18.
There's such a small chance that you'll ever see this but if you're still around, you should check out "Explained" on Netflix. There's an episode about music that goes into the biology and psychology of the music that surrounds us.
As different as the movie was from the book, I really love this scene.. this song is one of very few songs that moves me, and imagine it being the first piece of music you ever hear.. incredible, really.
At 2:15 when the music and the dancing appear, it completely takes over my emotions and moves me in a way that only music can. Its beautiful . I think it affects many of you the same way. I hope so.
This song makes me wish we lived in a world without crime and we all lived in peace to strive to better ourselves. Sadly that's only in the federation universe.
S Q Having a perfect world means getting rid of everything everyone find as a flaw (people aren’t flaws) and everyone loves things people find as a flaw (reference to Steven Universe Change your mind episode)
+Valerie Hund I know right in my class we read the book first and we loved it and then we saw the movie and I loved it. And that's like 1 of 67 students. Everyone but me was bitchin about the part that were in the book and we're not in the movie.
+Micheal Spears What I mean to say is a video game based PURELY on the book. I know the first three video game adaptations of the Harry Potter series balanced the book and movie references quite right. Even the video game adaptations of the Hobbit took some elements from the source material as well as the movie.
I never cry for any movies but during this scene, I felt the emotion that The Giver was talking about and that Jonas' community was missing. Tears came down.
"Feelings are just fleeting, on the surface. But emotions, they're very deep, primal, they linger. Jonas, you might not understand where you are or what's happening, but don't think about what you're seeing. Listen. Listen to what's calling from inside." One of the best lines from a movie ever.
I understand why he explains emotions when playing the piano. As a (very bad) pianist I know the only way to play a song well, is to put your own emotions into them.
I know, I'm tired of people choosing the book just because the movie doesn't follow it perfectly. A lot of times the movies make the story even better by adding stuff the real author didn't think of.
@@tarheel777100 i liked the scene a lot, I think the movie complements the book, after all is an adaptation and adaptations dont have to be the exact same
One of the things I like about the rosemary theme, is that to me. It makes me feel almost every emotion. Love, loss sadness happiness. And hope. This song has power, more than that of a congress president or king. If more people listened, we would be in a better place.
exactly :) were always being watched there are cameras on every corner, everyone is on some type of medication, the us government monitors anything and everything we do... its a crazy time to e alive
I have started the last week by waking up, and weeping, first sadness, followed by tears of joy. Usually for 30 minutes i will ball my eyes out. Only in that moment I feel the most human. I feel what IS inside of me, and it wants out. I want to be fully human.
The movie deserves so much more attention and love. The story is beautifully portrayed and even though it's different from the book, it still is really good
As a metal musician, this really captures what it's like to create music in general. It's the pinnacle of our emotions and how we express ourselves in the best way possible. I really appreciate this scene and it always gives me chills.
I feel like Jonas when I listen to this. Its just, I have heard music before, unlike him.. But never any music like this. The song is just so beautiful. By the way, if anyone knows, why wrote the song?
It's beautiful because there is pain and joy and very strong emotions so strong that it brought me to tears and who ever create this is a musical genius and understands the way of life through... the way of hearing and seeing the gift of memories.
I watched this movie today, as we had previously listened to the audio book. I felt this scene on a spiritual level, as I also play the piano. I felt like breaking down into tears but I couldn’t because I was in font of my peers.. it’s such a good movie with such deep meaning
This is truly the most amazing movie I have ever seen. It tells and shows the loving things, and the horrible things about the world that they never knew. Including music, and emotion.
I like how the giver says I'm not very good even though I had a very good teacher... That holds true with many things, a person who is very good at something got that way because of the person mentoring them and that person recognized something in you that you didnt know you had and pushed you to be better than them, even though you will never think you are, the world needs more of those people
I’m glad y’all saying what yall saying cuz I thought I was weird or something for having goosebumps, feeling my tears well up, feeling the primal emotions he’s talking about... it’s so strange!
I’m obsessed with this scene because one, I love the music so much, two, I love how he is playing the piano as he is talking, it is just such a great scene
This was one of my favorite books growing up. It was crazy to watch even though they left alot of stuff out and changed a few things I still liked it. This scene was one of my favorites. It gave me goosebumps when he teaching about emotions while playing the piano to transitioning to the memory
when i first watched this movie, it was in class, after we had read the book and when the scene came i started balling my eyes from the music and my classmates thought there was something wrong with me 😂
I remember I read and saw the giver (book and movie) when I was in 5th grade now I'm in 7th grade so close go high school , proud I got that far, and I learned to play piano at near the beginning of this new year in 7th grade , I'm still learning since I don't know how to read sheet music that well yet , but I do know a couple of songs , so because I was playing my piano I just started playing random notes because I was bored and I wanted to see if someday I could make my own music with the piano , then I play the notes A , C, E in a specific pattern and it sounded so familiar, I stressed myself to remember were it came from, than I remembered this wonder story and the music , I quickly type in my tablet tutorials for this song and now I'm learning this beautiful piece with such great meaning , I decided I want to see this movie again I want to read the book again it's was just to good to be read/saw only once , So now I'm here 2 years later and since I was in 5th grade I dreamed of someday playing this piece and that "someday" in today and tomorrow and beyond
This song so many emotions sadnesses happiness loneliness together all these emotions come to me when I hear this song and thx for making this beautiful song
This is probably my favorite scene from the movie. So much depth in it. Overall the movie is amazing, i'm so annoyed that Divergent overshadowed it, this was supposed to be the futuristic dystopia YA movie for everyone to talk about
Only if they didn't make this movie into a love story but what it was meant to be and how it was written. With that being said this is one of my favorite changes to a book ever. It was like listening to music for the first time all over again. It was so pure. There were better ways they could've handled this scene but all in all it is so beautiful.
@@lionsgamers592 didnt he have feelings for her in the book? But he never said anything i think. I vividly remember him saying in the book how much her eyes stood out to jonas
One morning, as chill as any other day on its first hours, I wake and get up to watch some morning t.v. like any other weekend. I choose my fav channel to watch something, whatever the local t.v. allows with its budget. It shows me an already started movie. I decide to watch, since the lack of colors like those old movies catches my eye, as well as the high definition images that tells me this is no ordinary black and white old movie, but one with a deep message. The film had no title, so I had no idea on what or where to search or how to share what I just saw. Years later, this movie came back in my memory, so I just search with my only plausible clue: "The Giver". Found out the movie's title, where to watch and what it's based on. This is the impact it had on me. Completely burned in my core memory.
SoundCandy002 I know it killed me. Especially 3 points: the fact that they were older when it was supposed to be children, the fact that there were "injections" instead of just meds after you start getting stirrings, and that they pursued some sort of romance between Jonas and Fiona instead of just the not even full crush that it was. Most of the other points [like the pilot thing and that we never saw the old or worked with them] I could tolerate but those 3 things just dug into me. Oh also that there was a weird mark instead of just the eyes being the tell-tale sign?? I always assumed everyone had brown eyes except for them and that they had blue just because they were supposed to be so much lighter it just made sense to me.
+Xiuzhu Qu I think the book was good but the movie expressed it in a way that the book wasn't able to. And the movie was able to capture the ending to their weird ways of society. But in the book it was a series but it wasn't about the Jonas anymore. And the ending scene of when people got their memories back, it was really an amazing scene to watch.
I love that the actor is actually able to play the piano, they don't have to do a bunch of cuts only showing the actor's face and then a different person's hands playing the piano.
“ Just like music there’s something else you can’t see with your eyes… something that lives deep inside you… something those morning injections take away.” That part of the scene always gives me goosebumps.
