We feel her pain as she endures physical hardships while training to be accepted by the thugs in Dauntless. Woodley is an expressive young actress whose relatable features invite us on Tris’ personal journey. Burger, for the most part, keeps his emphasis on character development… even as his grounded characters fight to establish themselves in an unusual world. It benefits from reaching theaters later, though, because it learns a few lessons from the YA efforts that failed before it. Is it the next Hunger Games? Or will it be the latest The Host, Beautiful Creatures, Mortal Instruments, and on and on.ĭivergent is better than those films, yet not quite on par with either Hunger Games movies. Unfairly or not, Divergent is being straddled with the same label that has accompanied – and will continue to accompany – every YA feature in a post- Twilight world. Because if Donald Sutherland can get some of that Hunger Games money, dammit, then Winslet ain’t too proud to juggle a handful of Divergent scenes!) (Personified here by Oscar-winner Kate Winslet.
Most might consider that a compliment! In Divergent, that means you are a threat to the powers that be. During her test, however, Tris is told by the mysterious Maggie Q that the vital results are “inconclusive” and she is “divergent,” meaning she doesn’t fit comfortably in any one faction. The choice, however, ultimately rests with them.īeatrice “Tris” Prior (Shailene Woodley) and her family belong to Abnegation, the selfless members of this balanced society. Since we don’t have a Sorting Hat, teens take a “test” that tells them which faction they’re destined to join. The bravest of the brave defend the city as members of Dauntless. Honest truth-talkers are assigned to Candor.
Desperate to survive and eager to restore some sense of order, society now divides individuals into groupings known as factions. Roth’s story exists in a distant yet recognizable future, where survivors of an unseen war have walled themselves away from an unseen threat in the bombed out city of Chicago… or, what’s left of it. On its surface, Divergent looks like post-apocalyptic, science-fiction escapism.
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