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The Giver
2014 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Phillip Noyce
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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash , or much of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick , especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver_(film)
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
Or Nineteeneightyfour and so much more...(yawn)...
Or
In the book/movie "The Giver", I remember the main character's mother saying "Precision of language." It was an instruction/request to be clearer and use less vague terms.
I wish we could say that, or something similar, to people without them getting upset. Implying that someone is communicating poorly and needs to improve is often dangerous. Instead you have to do a whole song and dance to say "I'm sorry, I'm not understanding. When you say X did you mean Y?"
true :), currently a sentence from the movie The Giver 2014 lingering in my head --- "precision of speech", "precision of speech" :)