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1) The giver
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover...
2) Snowpiercer
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Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
Four-disc set includes: The Matrix (1999)Slam-bang cyber-actioner stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, a computer hacker told by rebels (Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss) that the world, as he knows it, is actually a form of virtual reality. Neo is enlisted to use his intelligence and strength to topple the oppressive computer-run powers that control the world. Joe Pantoliano, Hugo Weaving co-star in this smash sci-fi hit co-written and co-directed by the...
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