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Film: The Giver Year: 2014 Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-fi Directed By: Phillip Noyce Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep About:  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. Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvp6FnYWRZU My Review: Letting my mother choose the film for us to watch she decided to choose the movie The Giver which is something I had not seen before. The movie is about a boy called Jonas who is given the job of being the keeper of memories and discovers about a world with emotions and what is outside of his community which he had never experienced before. I like that this film was in black and white to show the emotionless ways of the community and how they had to get rid of their emotions and they didn't know about the past. However, when Jonas starts to learn more about emo...

Film: K-PAX Year: 2001 Genre: Drama, Sci-fi Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack About:  PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. My Review:  Family movie days are a big thing in my household and my mum chose to watch the film K-PAX as I had never seen it before, not knowing what to think about this film and knowing nothing about it I watched this film completely blind. As a result this is my views on the film from the very first time I have ever seen it. This film is about a man who is found in a train station who appears from nowhere and is admitted to a mental institution claiming that he is from the planet K-PAX . Knowing things about the universe that he shouldn't the psychiatrist tries to find out who he really is and by use of hypnosis tries to figure out the mans past as well as who he truly is as he doesn't believe the man ...