It seems that it does not make much sense to take this "Loyal World (Part 1)" out for comment alone, because the film also has the usual practice of dividing the finale into two parts, and the audience needs to wait patiently to understand the complete plot. I've always been critical of Hollywood's business practices, because as an audience, you may have finally stirred up your emotions, and as a result, the previous efforts have come to nothing because of a mistake in a certain link of the director or screenwriter. Therefore, directors tend to bet all their treasures on the second half, and the word-of-mouth of a series is completely determined by the finale.
. The greatest significance of adapting a novel to a movie is actually to indirectly expand the audience. The meaning of the director's existence is to show the suspenseful plot in a novel through the language of the film. I generally tend to be conservative when commenting on films like Divergent, because there are too many spoilers and it will affect the viewing pleasure. But I believe that the audience can easily predict and judge the plot when watching the movie, which is a pity for a movie with a mature IP. It is impossible to judge whose fault this is, but as a film director, on the basis of retaining the original blueprint, in fact, many suspenseful foreshadowing can be smoothed out and overdone by listening to the language. For example, the resistance of the Triss will definitely rise to a larger pattern, and they will definitely encounter a different world after overcoming the wall (this is really overcoming the wall); for example, the world they are in must have a more powerful one. Group control; for example, the villain must have the perspective of God, etc. I think that the audience after the baptism of suspense movies such as "Maze Runner" and "Cube" is not so easy to deceive. I always think that the reason why the movie version of "Divergent" is not as good as "The Hunger Games" in terms of atmosphere rendering is that It has too many stereotypes to show: it needs to guide the audience's emotions while echoing the plot structure.
Divergent 3 establishes a new world order while continuing the subversion of the world view above. The wasteland-like world style and the doomsday scene of broken walls make people feel that the world outside the wall is not as good as the inside. In this way, there is no so-called motivation to resist the order and uprising, because the system of the world outside the wall is different from the order that once imprisoned the protagonists. The hang is completed. They face a whole new world and order, and the rulers outside the walls, led by Jeff Daniels, are both good and evil, and your resistance has lost momentum. Fortunately, the leader of the non-sectarian uprising army played by Nuomi was upgraded to a new big devil after getting rid of the shredded meat. Under the new order outside the wall, the teams established by the first two are also facing the danger of collapse. Looking at this story from a macro perspective, we will have a more three-dimensional understanding of the emotional journey and encounters of the protagonists Trisi, the fourth child and their friends.
Therefore, if the first two films are pure revolts against order and individual uprisings, then starting from the third episode, the film has become a social fable, and it is also a wasteland-style work from which it ends. experience, the assertion of technophobia. The pure love between Triss and the fourth child, the experimentation and prejudice of human nature, and the conflict between being controlled by the power and the individual counterattack, thus opened another dystopian story.
So what kind of story is this telling? After the disintegration of the faction system, the divergent Triss (Shailene Woodley) uncovers the secrets of the entire human race. It turns out that Chicago is nothing more than an experiment created by the US Genetic Bureau. In a chaotic Chicago in crisis, the fourth mother Evelyn (Naomi Watts) organized a powerful armed force in an attempt to occupy Chicago and become the new ruler. Triss decides to lead fourth (Theo James), Christina (Zoe Kravitz), Pete (Miles Teller), Tori (Maggie Lee) and Caleb (Anse) Elgort) fled to the world outside Chicago to find new hope for the people of Chicago. They escaped successfully after all the obstacles and finally came to the mysterious world outside the wall, a genetic bureau full of various high-tech technologies. In this new world, the values of Triss and the fourth child are completely subverted, and the trust between the two has been tested like never before. When they finally discover the bigger conspiracy behind the so-called mysterious business of the head of the Genome Bureau, David (Jeff Daniels), they don't realize that they have already been involved in it. In order to protect the people of Chicago, Triss and the fourth child made a choice that was loyal to their hearts. They wanted to unite all factions to declare war on the world beyond the wall! Will they be able to overturn the world with their last stand against the stone?
At this time, the movie entered the real sci-fi movie mode. Unlike the political fables with a soft sci-fi nature such as "The Hunger Games", the exploration of technology and the future, when the technological means is developed enough, can easily destroy the world and rebuild it. How can we ensure the continuation of races in the world? Using the same kind to do experiments, the game between cold technology and human nature is also the characteristic of youth science fiction movies. The biggest feature of the "Divergent" series is that it strictly "complies with" the setting of the rebellious period of the teenage protagonist. Each character is not a high-profile image, or impulsive or cowardly, everyone will make mistakes, and everyone will have selfishness, but it is That's how it looks real.
In my opinion, "Divergent 3" (to be precise, "3 On") wants to express too many things. If you look at the basis of wanting to follow the spirit of a novel, what the director shows is that he can't wait to be in the The content of the two films is stuffed into this film, so that the three films have a perfect echo. But fortunately, the director did a good job in handling emotional scenes, and the emotional sublimation of Triss and Xiaosi also fully carried the audience's memories of the first two parts. And the lines that express the core of the film also appear just right, just like the line of Tris: every individual should have dignity. In fact, the core of "Divergent 3" is to tell the audience to be loyal to their hearts and fight for themselves. This reminds me of a sentence in Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem": to lose humanity, to lose a lot. Lose the bestiality, lose everything. In fact, "Divergent" is a work that has both "bestiality" and "humanity". If the second half of the film abandons the sublimation of this theme, it can only be reduced to a superficial and ordinary Hollywood industrialization work. If the director can make more performance and play on these two themes, the film is not worth looking forward to.
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