"Divergent: Awakening of Aliens": Who is in charge of your life?

Shaun 2022-04-23 07:01:06

This is a story about growing up.


The new order established after the turbulent times of mankind, each person is divided into 5 factions according to their own personality - erudite, honest, selfless, fearless, friendly, as a "divergent", it is difficult to classify the heroine Triss fights for control and justice in her life.


In the film, each faction represents an advantage of human beings, that is, the focus of human character. In this sense, they follow the rule that "character determines destiny". What caused the conflict in the film was the rule of "faction is greater than blood". They controlled the people by suppressing or eliminating "human nature", which was against the law of social development.


The heroine Triss does not like the faction that her parents belong to - the selfless faction, and in the later personality test, he has the genes of the erudite faction, the selfless faction, and the fearless faction at the same time, but this is in the eyes of others. It's unreasonable, they don't like this kind of person, because this kind of person will not be manipulated, so Tris is determined to be an "abnormal" from the beginning.


This situation is very similar to human growth.


In traditional Chinese families, babies who have reached the age of one year will perform a ceremony - "catch the week", in which pen, ink, paper, inkstone, abacus, coins, books, etc. are placed in front of the child, and the tenure grabs, in order to predict the child's fate and future.


As the saying goes: "You look old at the age of three". A child will be more or less influenced by his parents in the process of his own growth, and parents will consciously cultivate their children according to their ideas. The famous feminist Beauvoir has a famous saying: "Women are not born, but cultivated." In this sense, the reason why everyone becomes a certain kind of person is also acquired.


When you suddenly realize that you don't grow up as society dictates you, but use another method to "grow up wildly", perhaps, you become a social antagonist.


There are many such examples in real life, and they have also succeeded, such as Han Han, Ding Junhui, and Lang Lang. They did not follow the usual path and did not grow up according to the conventional path.


In the film, Triss chose Dreadnought according to her own wishes, but it did not make her happy, and she even wondered if she chose the wrong one. In the process of growing up, it is impossible for everyone to survive in the world with a single character. Because human nature is complex.

In the film, Kate Winslet, the erudite leader, has been claiming to destroy humanity. And her reason for doing this is that human nature has weaknesses, and it is easy for the enemy to take advantage of human weaknesses. However, in doing so, they have also smoothed out the most basic characteristics of what makes people human.


Human nature is complex, life is rich, and everyone can create their own life on their own.

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Divergent quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Caleb Prior: You're nervous, aren't you?

    Beatrice 'Tris' Prior: Why would I be nervous? We just decide the rest of our lives.

  • [from trailer]

    Tori: You're different. You don't fit into a category. They can't control you. They call it Divergent. You can't let them find out about you.