Divergent

In March of 2014 a new movie series got started out with a movie named Divergent. Divergent was directed by Neil Burger and had an $85 million budget. This movie is based off a book by Veronica Roth which was also titled Divergent.

Divergent is based in a future post-apocalyptic society that is very different from our society today. They population of the future society is split up into five different faction. These factions each had different jobs and different characteristics. The 5 groups were split by the characteristics: selfless, peaceful, honest, brave, and intelligent. When children get to an old enough age they get to choose which faction they want to join. They can choose whatever faction they want but they get to have an aptitude test that tells the kids which faction they would be best fit in.

Divergent is about a girl named Beatrice who is just getting to the age that she has to choose which faction she wants. However when she takes the test, the test tells her three different factions. Beatrice then finds out that some people get multiple factions and their test and that it is called Divergent. She also finds out that it is dangerous being Divergent because the government can’t control them so the government see them as threats. Beatrice then decides to join the brave faction and starts to train with them. She has to train really hard because the people at the bottom of the group get kicked out of the faction and have to live on the streets. She manages to make it into the faction but then discovers that many of the higher ups are corrupt. She also discovers that there is a plot made up by the intelligent to rebel against the government, kill lots of people, and take over control.

When I first watched this movie I had no idea what I was going to go see. As I am not a big reader, I had not even heard of the books. I never saw the trailer for the movie so I had no idea what the movie was about. The only thing that I knew about this movie was that many people were excited to see it. I think that not knowing anything about the movie before seeing it, made the movie even better. I think that if I had been told what the movie was about beforehand I would have gotten my own ideas of what the movie would have looked like. Then I would be kind of disappointed since the movie isn’t exactly like what was in my head. Having no preconceived notations the movie made the whole movie a surprise and a very good one too.

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