While The Giver may fail in places as a piece of perfect storytelling, the new film with a host of hunks and movie stars is at once compelling and visually dramatic. Though it seems at times part Forest Gump, and large part, George Lucas’s THX1138, the use of color, metaphor and symbolism eventually finds its way clear of stereotype to engage the viewer in a romantic, thought-provoking story that tries too hard in the end to be Hunger Games, when it could have been just smart all along.