328: The Giver
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Book to Movie Month voyages on with the adaptation of Lois Lowry's beloved The Giver! We talk about unnecessarily aging up characters, a movie that COMPLETELY underestimates your intelligence, and Kat sings the best theme song ever.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:25.6 | I high-bye, la, everybody. |
| 0:27.0 | I high-bye, la, I want to know, welcome to I Hate It, but I love it. |
| 0:29.6 | I am Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:30.8 | I am Cattingus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate |
| 0:34.6 | simultaneously. |
| 0:35.6 | This week, we are continuing book to movie month with the 2014 adaptation of |
| 0:40.9 | Lois Larry's The Giver. |
| 0:42.9 | You know, when you check out of a movie in the first three seconds, it's absolutely |
| 0:49.8 | twice in my life. |
| 0:51.2 | Once was watching the fourth Indiana Jones, the second time was this. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes. |
| 0:56.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:57.8 | The Giver, one of the, like you said last week, one of the greatest children's books of |
| 1:02.2 | all time. |
| 1:03.2 | Absolutely. |
| 1:04.2 | I read it as a child. |
| 1:05.2 | It felt magical and important, and it did such a good job because this book is about |
| 1:12.0 | children of making it seem like, oh, this is kind, like, what a neat society. |
| 1:18.1 | And like, oh, they assign you a thing, but it's like special for you. |
| 1:21.7 | So like, it really takes, and then like, as you go on, you realize, like, oh, nothing in |
| 1:27.0 | the society is what it seems, which granted is pretty typical dystopian stuff. |
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