“The Giver”
By: Peter Travers
Source: Rolling Stone
“The Giver” was released on August
15, 2014. The movie was directed by Phillip Noyce and is about a young boy’s
journey to discover a “real” world with the help of an elderly man. Peter
Travers uses automatic ethos when writing the review to prove to everyone that
the review comes from a reliable source. Travers is a famous movie critic and
people should respect his opinion. Travers appeals to logos during the by
informing the viewers that Jonas Travers was eleven years old in the book, but
was played as a twenty-four year old boy in the movie. Travers does use pathos in
the review, but he compares the movie to the original book. At first, Travers
discusses how he had read “The Giver” and enjoyed the fact that it was a world
without pain or suffering. However, Travers did not enjoy the idea of a world
going from dull and gray to colorful and beautiful all of a sudden. Travers
believes that no person would like to watch a movie that saddens him or her at
first, and then unexpectedly brings happiness, without any transition in
between.
Travers uses claim of fact by
informing the audience that about his belief that movies based on books, should
portray their characters the same age they were in the book. Travers discusses
claim of value when he tells the audience that it is desirable when movies do
not have a sudden plot. Travers wanted the movie to have transitional periods
throughout the scenes, but it did not. Travis shows claim of policy by advising
the director that the movie should have had a change in the plot. The movie
should have discussed the unrealistic world at first, but should have given the
main character a challenge or a task before he discovers the “real” world.
Travers proves this was a bad review by giving the
movie one-and-a-half stars out of five. Travers claims, “Lowry took chances with her novel. The movie
of “The Giver” takes none. It's
safe, sorry and a crashing bore”(1). Travers believed that the director was too
desperate to portray the movie the same as the book that he forgot to make it
interesting. Although the movie was supposed to be based on the book, the
director could have taken the time to review the movie and make sure the
audience would actually enjoy it.
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