American youth novels The biggest box office of the movie is still in Europe and the United States. It can be called a phenomenon-level idol movie without doubt that the fans of other countries are influenced by readers and audiences in Europe and the United States. They will all be affected and want to have a look... It is undeniable that most people have never seen or even heard the name of the original novel before the novel and movie that has been put on the screen, but such a novel He De He Neng can be attracted by a Hollywood film production company, and in the case of mutual benefit, release the news that the novel will be adapted into a movie by Hollywood, drive the novel to stimulate the sale, create a topic to earn eyeballs and box office... In fact, if you pay attention to the bookstore In the column of translated literature, you can see that many novels are about to be adapted into movies in large characters on the cover, but unfortunately many have never read the relevant news in any channel, and finally let it go... Maybe the film company has indeed bought the copyright, static Waiting for a better time to adapt the filming...
"Divergent" is also an adaptation of a teenage novel and is the first of a trilogy of novels by American author Veronica Roth. The "Twilight Saga" has ended perfectly, and "The Divergent" has been given the hope to take over this piece of the film market... The North American first weekend box office "The Divergent" undoubtedly topped the box office with $56 million. Compared with the box office record of "Twilight"'s first $69.5 million and the box office record of "The Hunger Games", "The Hunger Games", it is impossible for "Divergent" to succeed, but compared with "Beautiful Creatures", "Host", "Bone" "City" and "Vampire Academy", "Divergent" are the winners of this wave of adaptations, but the quality of the film is not higher than the previous examples...
Sometimes, a hero can be achieved by thinking differently . And those who fight against power are in their youth.
After the film sets up the human war, Chicago becomes an isolated city, in this utopian society, there are five factions. At the age of 16, all citizens have to make a choice, whether to stay in the faction they were born in, or to choose a new faction, before they go through a series of learning and testing. The five factions represent different character traits: Abnegation, Candor, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite. The film avoids two factions that are more logistical and have nothing to talk about, and focuses on showing the lives of three factions: the selfless, the erudite, and the fearless. Each 16-year-old undergoes computer analysis, chooses his own faction: selfless, fearless, learned, honest, friendly—and then settles into a prescriptive life, day in and day out, like his parents.
Beatrice, who originally belonged to the selfless faction, showed fearlessness, erudition, and selflessness in the 16-year-old "aptitude test". The faction people are in which camp they are "different". All factions believe that if everyone lives according to their own principles of behavior, there will be peace and peace in the world, because the existence of "disagreeers" will lead to turmoil and even war. Everyone lives in their own faction, doing what "should" do, and the world runs in an orderly manner. This is Plato's "Utopia" and Thomas More's "Utopia". However, "really" is not the case. Xiao Xianrou of the selfless faction counterattacked in the fearless faction, and was identified as a dissenter. She does not belong to any fixed, single, and unique faction. Her thinking is rich, multi-dimensional, "rebellious", and therefore subject to "the tyranny of the majority".
The scene where the heroine chooses a faction is reminiscent of Harry Potter's choice of academy, the difference is that one is wearing a hat, and the other is cutting his hands and bleeding to find a home. After that is the regular youth growth routine, recruits join the army, the female protagonist has a weak physique, and the last-ranked sister paper has successfully counterattacked all the way. The counterattack is divided into two parts, the first part is to overcome physical fear, and the latter part is to overcome psychological fear. . Because the latter part of the heroine is a free and unrestrained alien identity, she clearly knows that the fear that appears in the test is false and easy to get rid of, but she is always scared because of her "alien" identity, and she has to pretend to be brave. Pick up props, come up with ideas, and be brave enough to pass the fear test. In the meantime, I gained a pure love with the male protagonist 4 by the way. Four represents his four kinds of fears. In fact, the male protagonist is also an outlier. He is hidden in the fearless, probably out of self-preservation, so he declined to be the leader of the fearless twice. Speaking of the villain of this film, it is Kate Winslet's erudite, Countess Kate's noble and evil image, and her role is like Hoffman's Hunger Games, Jodie Foster's Elysium, It is a flavoring agent that pulls the layers and enhances the style. She tried to inject brainwashing drugs into the fearless, and then manipulated the fearless to slaughter the self-denying ones to seize power.
The magic of youth is naturally inseparable from the mother proposition of growth. How growth is represented in the movie is visualized as Triss chasing the train three times. This bridge appears three times in the movie. Facing the enemy, returning to the Fearless headquarters with the family of the self-denying, and finally breaking the erudite conspiracy and being hunted down, it represents the path of Tris's growth. The fate theory at the beginning and the end of the last train is simply a replica of the Hunger Games! Although the temperament of the film is very similar to The Hunger Games, it can be regarded as a display of self-style.
The extremes of technology in the film are often shown and criticized in dystopian films, and the human imagination in Divergent has been completely visualized. And human consciousness can also be completely controlled by drugs and technology. The leader of the erudite faction, Kate Winslet, injected drugs into the members of the Dreadnought to control their minds, and then slaughtered the civilians of the selfless faction. There are similarities in the same way. Of course, this is also a demonstration of the binary opposition of "rationality and irrationality" in such films. In the end, Beatrice used emotional influence to win The Four (Theo James) to win the final victory, which is also the consistent appeal of most dystopian films.
In fact, "Divergent", apart from the author's construction of a society and system that violates human nature, does not add too many settings that are inconceivable or contrary to common sense of physics. It is more about the confrontation between people and rights. It's a process of a person's self-awakening, but when Shailene Woodley was about to be shot, she looked down at her own reflection on the water, making everything in the ending seem to be a fantasy in a fantasy, those ultimate confrontations, and everything. A win to win, or just a dream within a quiz. Factions are shackled, and spirits have no limits. Perhaps the biggest fear of every resister is to win in fantasy.
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