In the future world, due to large-scale wars, most of humanity will perish, and the few remaining people will gather in a city to survive. In the name of maintaining peace, the founder divided people into five factions: selfless, erudite, fearless, honest, and friendly. Each faction lives in its own right, and each person needs to choose the faction he belongs to for life when he is 16 years old. After setting up and explaining, the film immediately throws out the fuse for the development of conflict. The 16-year-old girl Beatrice, played by Shailene Woodley, was born in a selfless family, but was tested and identified as a different kind, that is, the disagreement, that is, not. People belonging to any faction. She disregarded the admonitions of others and chose the fearless faction.
After Beatrice entered the Fearless School, "Divergent" showed all the characteristics of it as a teenage film. The fearless survival game is packaged into action and adventure scenes, full of natural and meaningless fighting and parkour. In this process, another essential element of the youth film came into being: love. "The Hunger Games" mixed dog blood love and social metaphors, and was skillfully concocted with cool situations, romantic love, and a bit of social reflection, and it became a movie burger composed of Coca-Cola, popcorn and "Marx".
Trying to extract deep thoughts from a Coca-Cola-style movie is probably as strange as talking about health while eating KFC. The consumption theme of "Divergent" has been completely used up by "The Hunger Games", and the amount of thought it dedicated is almost zero. Director Neil Borg, who has directed "Never Ending", beats the rhythm of the film very tightly, and the audience must give up thinking about the flaws in the setting and ignore the plot logic in order to feel the smooth pleasure of the rhythm. When we think about it, the rhythm becomes messy.
The social functions of the five major factions are not clear. Is such a division really conducive to controlling humans? The presence of the honest and friendly pie is more soy sauce than soy sauce, will it slowly unfold in the sequel? Beatrice's love story goes on in a more illogical state than "The Hunger Games". The survival training of the fearless is simply a brainless game, and it has always been inexplicable parkour and fighting. The factional struggle between the scholarly and selfless factions did not give enough motivation, and ended in unfinished fashion. Can the climax scene of Bicui's ribbon head resistance be more scribbled?
And these ideas based on reality and questioning the logic of the movie do not apply to its target audience. The new sci-fi setting is responsible for the freshness and visual wonders; the action-adventure elements make adrenaline tumbling; the love between men and women stimulates the hormonal burst; the rebellious theme coincides with the rebellious mood of adolescence. Meeting these needs is not far from a successful teenage film. "Divergent" has not failed in this sense. For teenagers, especially those who grew up under the nourishment of American capitalism, it is easy to be inspired by the rebellious spirit in it, but they may not be aware of it or deliberately ignore this movie. To please their kitsch nature, rough plots and contradictory logic in them, did not constitute consumption resistance.
Overall, this is a mediocre popcorn movie. The most daring part of it is probably still the same as "The Hunger Games." As a commercial film, the active heroine, but like Jennifer Lawrence, has a "female man" face. For straight male cancer patients, This is simply an offense to aesthetics. The dystopian spice will not make the beautiful parkour in the film meaningful. The idea of the film is probably only worthy of "Nineteen Eighty Four" and "Brave New World" (both refer to novels). Vellus hair. It is a typical fast-moving consumer goods, fast production, fast consumption, fast forgetting, if you are lucky, after many years, it will become a symbol of nostalgia for some people. 【Sohu Entertainment】
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