However, in addition to the appreciation of the film, more, I also have a concern. Because I have always felt that it is a thankless task to remake literary works into movies. Although adaptations and series of films have become an unstoppable mainstream force, it is necessary to grasp the scale of the big screen while conforming to the spiritual main axis of the original work. It is not an easy task to keep up with the pace of progress of the series. This is a problem that most adaptations of movies have to face.
"Divergent" also encountered this problem, and compared to other adaptations of the film, it may suffer a bit more-compared with the structure and ambition of the entire series, the first "Divergent" used "Iceberg" in the development level of the world view. "A corner" is a bit exaggerated. Therefore, as the beginning of a series of movies, it may not be so brilliant, but it would be a pity to discard the entire series after watching the first part.
The "Divergent" trilogy has a taste of the threefold realm of Buddhism: the first part looks at mountains as mountains and water as water; the second part looks at mountains but not mountains, but water is not water; the third part looks at mountains or mountains. See water or water. The plot advancement of the entire series is very hierarchical, the perspective is turning, it is a big world, but after careful consideration, in fact, there is always only one core, which is the search for complex human nature.
My friend has never read the book. After watching the movie, he told me that the setting and logic are a bit difficult to agree with. In fact, this is how I feel after reading the first book. It is like seeing the dreamland created in Inception , As long as there is something unreasonable, the world will fall apart immediately.
Selfless, fearless, honest, friendly, and erudite, the life world of the five major factions seems to be a ridiculous situation with serious flaws. Everyone can only belong to a faction divided by personality, and faction is more important than blood. Let each other's lives look distinct and extremely cold. Therefore, these beautiful qualities that should be pursued by human beings are distorted and transformed. The selfless group overemphasizes giving to others and neglects to pay attention to oneself. The fearless group equates cruelty and courage. The honest group uses honesty to disguise their feelings about others. Ignore, the eruditioner is ambitious, and knowledge becomes a weapon to manipulate others. Human personality is supposed to shine, but those with more than two personalities have become the quick target of the scholarly school. What happened in this world? Even science fiction works should be well-founded and have a clear line of thought.
I think that many people who have never read the book may have an impulse to make a big deal about its setting. This is where I said the movie suffers. In the first novel, the author wants to present it. The world view has not yet been fully developed, but in the next two novels, the level of awareness that makes people constantly refreshed is immediately reflected, and this is all based on the foundation of the world constructed in the first book.
The second level is that when you think that the world of the five major factions is the entire background frame, you find that it is just a tool for the outside world to rescue itself. It turns out that such a distorted living space is indeed deliberately created. , The lens was pushed away, and we realized that all we saw was just a corner of the canvas. The conflict here is more intense and intensified than in the first part. In the contradiction between the factional world and the extraterritorial world, the five major factions face each other tit-for-tat, and the melee fighting for power is also full of smoke. The twisted human nature was stripped of the individual in the war, and the factions became Took the last fig leaf.
After the beginning of the third part, I and the factions who came to the outside world were shocked again. The so-called factions are just people with genetic defects. The second level of realm has also come to a climax. It should be the value of survival. The whole system collapses. How can people who lack a skeleton live?
The third level is gradually unfolding as the factionists and the gene bureau of the outside world gradually unfold. The gene bureau personnel with pure genes seem to be far stronger than the "defective" factions, but their approach is similar to that of Zhenning and so on. How much is the difference between people? The practice of using or even sacrificing others without hesitation is far from the word "purity", and where are the so-called flaws? If compulsory division of factions is in vain ignoring human nature, then the repair of defective genes by outsiders is to be immersed in the illusion of castles in the air. What is the difference between the two? The essence is just the rigidity of human nature, and this shackle will eventually be broken. In this small world, which is different from the world of factions, we finally see the meaning behind human nature. The complexity and defects are its truest appearance, and this is also the source that the third level truly reveals.
Therefore, what is constantly changing in the trilogy is the perspective of looking at the world, but the value concept has not changed. As the first part of the opening chapter, "Divergent" took the lead to lift a layer of humanity, and also tore off the fig leaf of this world, and the larger exploration and torture, only waiting for the next layer of progress.
In short, "Divergent: Alien Awakening" successfully opened this movie series, and will definitely detonate this movie series. If you don't want to miss the upgrade of "Rebel" and "Loyalist", "Divergent" is a must watch. At the same time, for the series of works, it is very important to be able to see the growth of the characters, and the emotional line between Triss and the fourth child is a part of this strong and colorful link. At this point, the book’s characterization and characterization of the protagonist Changes have a very reasonable arc of development. I hope that the movie will not ignore the depiction of this emotional line, although at the end...I won't be spoiled.
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