Strapped into a Clockwork Orange apparatus with some Christian Grey leather, Tris endures a bunch of simulations that vault her across the Chicago skyline and into netherspace. (There’s also a scene in which, if I correctly read my Wikipedia synopsis of the book, one of the major characters is given a different murderer.) The trio of new screenwriters - first-timer Brian Duffield, action specialist Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard, Unstoppable) and designated Ron Howard scripture Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code) - has junked reams of plot from Roth’s second novel and added a magic box, a gift from the elders that will suss out the one true Divergent and, I don’t know, either save or ruin the land. It does provide a few high-tech flourishes.
In pop-culture terms, Michael Jackson at his “Billie Jean” apogee. She is not just a Divergent, the blending of several factions, but The Divergent. The first film had the benefit of being new - newish, given the familiarity of movies about kids getting hazed by ruthless adults - in picturing Tris’ emergence through those worlds into her own unique entity. Latecomers can apply the mnemonic device FACADE: Factionless for the outsiders, Amity for the famers, Candor for the truthsayers, Abnegation for the selfless, Dauntless for the daring and Erudite for the smarties. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder.ĭivergent, directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth’s dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants’ skills. Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters. It’s wandering, not urgent, while indicating that all-Shailene-all-the-time can be too much of a pretty good thing.įor your security, we've sent a confirmation email to the address you entered. The picture comes up short in both categories.
Given the modest surprise of last year’s Divergent - who’d have guessed that the nth YA retread could be so … O.K.? - Insurgent has two hurdles to scale: building on the promise of the first film and permanently anointing Woodley as the industry’s ferocious deadpan goddess. (Four-part because no matter how fashions change in semi-blockbuster franchises, the one unyielding Hollywood principle is greed.)
Tris Prior, the flinty heroine played by Shailene Woodley, goes rural in Insurgent, the second episode in the inevitable four-part trilogy now called The Divergent Series. After three Hunger Games movies, plus a bunch of Twilight forestry escapades, one Maze Runner (with more to come) and that dawdling sylvan interlude in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, the yawning YA genre packs its young audiences off to another Teen Boot Camp.
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