The Giver - Featurette

Author Lois Lowry talks about her dystopian sci-fi book 'The Giver' in a featurette ahead of the release of the film adaptation starring Jeff Bridges and Brenton Thwaites. The film follows a young boy living in a world without war, crime suffering or diversity, who is chosen to receive information about the real disasters of the previous world in a program designed to keep the society stable.

'I began to think about how important memory is', says Lois. 'What would happen if we could manipulate human memory. And when a writer begins to think questions like that, that begin with 'What if.', then a story begins to take shape. This is a boy who perceives the hypocrisy of the governing body of his world, and perceives something deeply evil there.'