Movie Review

DIVERGENT

 

•Release date: March 21, 2014 (USA)

 

•Director : Neil Burger

 

•Running time: 140 minutes

 

•Adapted from: Divergent

 

•Genre : Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy

 

THE SUMMARY

 

In a futuristic Chicago, society is divided into 5 factions. Abnegation the selfless, Dauntless the brave, Erudite the intelligent, Candor the honest, and Amity the peaceful. When all teenagers reach the age of 16, they must choose to either stay in their faction of birth, or transfer into another faction. Beatrice Prior must make the decision to stay with her family in a faction she feels she isn't right for, or to transfer into another faction, and leave her family behind. What follows is a highly competitive initiation, where the newly renamed Tris must make some tough decisions, but she must also keep a secret that she was warned could mean death, while she juggles friends, initiation, and a newfound love interest. But there is a secret lying beneath everything that threatens to tear the city apart.

 

THE CAST

 

Shailene Woodley

as

Beatrice Prior

Beatrice "Tris" Prior is the main protagonist and narrator of the Divergent series. She is a strong-willed sixteen-year-old girl who hates showing weakness. Though Tris was born in the faction Abnegation, she eventually transferred to Dauntless and must face the fact that she is Divergent. When she arrives in her new faction, she opted for a change of name to go by, using Tris as a nickname for Beatrice, hoping for a fresh start in a new faction.

 

Theo James  

as

Four

Four/ Tobias Eaton is the faction transfer instructor. He becomes Tris' love interest. Four is an Abnegation transfer who left because of his father and his Divergence.

 

 

Ansel Elgort

as

Caleb

Caleb is the brother of Beatrice 'Tris' Prior. Upon reaching the age of "Choosing" for selecting one of the five factions of this society, he chose to leave Abnegation and move to Erudite.

 

 

Ashley Judd

as

Natalie Prior(Beatrice’s mother)

 

 

Tony Goldwyn

as

Andrew Prior (Beatrice's father)

 

SETTING

A Futuristic, Dystopian Chicago

If you've ever been to Chicago, you'll recognize the landmarks of the city, though they've all been tweaked a bit:

·         When the Dauntless go to play Capture the Flag paintball, Tris climbs The Ferris wheel at Navy Pier

·         The Dauntless initiates zip line from a ruined Hancock building (17.47) down Lake Shore Drive (17.71) (which should be avoided during blizzards)

·         The Hub where the Choosing Ceremony goes down is really the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower (1.19) (which is very tall)

·         When Tris and Caleb talk outside of Erudite headquarters, they go by a giant "bean" in a place called Millennium (28.33-4)—which is really Millennium Park and a statue everyone calls the bean, but is actually named Cloud Gate

·         And there's a "large metal sculpture" (1.23) outside the school that could be either the Picass sculpture or maybe Alexander Calder's Flamingo

 

 

 

 

MY OPINION

•I think this movie is so interesting. Divergent is all about identity, about searching your soul and determining who you are

•While it is important to be yourself and have your own characteristics, you shouldn't only live by one trait and should try to have other traits also.