Divergent Movie

I want to dedicate this post to the Divergent film which is based on the Veronica Roth’s novel. Frankly, I loved this book as well as whole series badly. All the characters have become very close to me. So I prepared for the movie and expected the worst.

I should say the film was pretty good. It can attract new fans and please the old ones. The actors have been chosen really well, not all of them, but most. They did their job good. The screenplay was not bad, but there were certain moments that were really important and were absent in the movie. But let’s speak about this later.

As soon as I knew about casting results I was slightly disappointed. Shailene Woodley is by no means little and fragile, and Theo thou is a better choice still was not really Four to me. Miles’s got rather soft appearance for Peter, and Ashley Jadd was way too beautiful for someone from Abnegation. But Tony Goldwyn was really excellent choice, as well as Kate Winslet. But all the actors worked hard and became their characters. I believed Shailene and Theo, Ashley turned out an amazing abnegation mom, and Peter though wasn’t as cruel as in the book still was an asshole.

The reason of my dissatisfaction is similar to others’ – why on Earth they decided to put Uriah out of game? The character and his line by far is one of the most interesting and important. The character himself is very charismatic and influences other characters. So why didn’t they write him in screenplay? And would he be present in next movies? I hope so.

Tris in the movie was much more beautiful than in the book and this moment was a little bit confusing. Maybe I’m just got used to her insecurities concerning her appearance. I got used to small and fragile Tris. But it didn’t hold me from believing Shailene.

I’m surely going to watch the next movie, and this film is 4/5.

Divergent review

Can’t believe I’ve read it only now. Don’t know what stopped me but still I read it so I’m ready to express my opinion.

I’m a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y-i-n-l-o-v-e with this book! Haven’t started reading the second one, but I’m pretty sure I’ll love it. Nicely depicted the world of the future Chicago – people are divided into five fractions due to dedication of a particular virtue. The government does everything possible to make people alike and to think in that way they can be controlled. Only divergents – people who can decide themselves therefore government doesn’t control them – are dangerous to the leaders. Once leaders find out about divergent – he or she will be killed. So it makes life for Tris – the main character and divergent as well – pretty difficult. On her way through the whole plot she gains a lot of new features of character, new friends, new habits, new tattoos and the first love. Tris is lucky enough to have such a helper like Four – or Tobias. He’s also a divergent and her love. At the end of the book Tris looses almost whole her family and her brother Caleb and Four are the only ones she cares for.

Talking about favourite characters I can’t deny that Four is amazing. He’s smart and strong and helpful and no matter what he has only 4 fears – pretty spectacular huh? In childhood he suffered from his father’s  abuses and does everything possible to become a member of another fraction. And he becomes the best.

If you like action, dystopia and well-written love plotline you will love this book because there’s a lot of this. I can’t wait to read the second part – Insurgent. 

 "… but sometimes it isn’t fighting that’s brave,it’s facing the death you know is coming."