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Women warriors are on the rise again in American movies, and so, too, are hopes that they’ll be able to strike where it counts: in the industry’s executive suites.Some of this faith can be traced, irrationally or exuberantly, to “The Hunger Games.”Its second installment, “Catching Fire,” wasn’t only the highest grossing movie of 2013, it also pulled in a lot of guys, and not just, you know, women, that 52 percent of North American moviegoers who are deemed a limited demographic, a niche and a seemingly unsolvable problem.
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That no one would ever frame male-driven franchises like “Iron Man,” “Spider-Man” and “The Dark Knight” as niche attractions helps explain that problem.So, yea for “Divergent,” a dumb movie that I hope makes major bank if only as a reminder of the obvious: Women can drive big and little movies,(Download Divergent) including the pricey franchises that fire up the box office and the culture.To do so, though, they’re going to need directors who can handle the demands of an industrial production like this and a script that obscures rather than emphasizes the weakness of the source material. A good action choreographer will be crucial, as will decent hair and makeup.That the length of Shailene Woodley’s eyelashes changes throughout “Divergent” may have been amusingly distracting for a while (maybe they’re mood lashes, a friend quipped), but such shoddiness also underscores the contempt that movie companies have for the medium and the audience.
Veronica Roth, who wrote the book “Divergent” and its two hot-selling follow-ups, tends to avoid mentioning “The Hunger Games,” but the similarities between these young-adult juggernauts are conspicuous in the extreme. “The Hunger Games” is a dystopian tale set in a postwar North America divided into 13 districts; “Divergent” is a dystopian tale set in postwar Chicago divided into five factions.(Download Divergent) Each series pivots on a gutsy teenage heroine who fights to the death like a classic male hero. Each year, the young characters in the books undergo a weird ritual: In “The Hunger Games,” wee ones are sent into mortal combat; the initiation ritual in “Divergent,” much like the book itself, is rather more anticlimactic, because teenagers just choose which faction to grow old in.
There is a crucial difference: While Katniss Everdeen doesn’t make much room for romance in “The Hunger Games” (she has a revolution to lead), Tris Prior spends a whole lot of time wondering why her instructor pays attention to her. He’s a guy, as if you didn’t know, because while “Divergent” celebrates individuality and breaking out of the little boxes that its authoritarian leaders (i.e., adults) insist on putting teenagers in, the story sticks to the familiar gendered template.(Download Divergent) Girl warrior meets boy warrior and, in between punches, kicks and bullets, they hold hands. One of the few real surprises in the “Divergent” novel is that it’s nearly as chaste as the “Twilight” series, although Ms. Woodley and her romantic foil, Four (Theo James), do open wide during several kisses.They make a fine duo. They’re easy on the eyes, for one, and Ms. Woodley has a gift for conveying a sense of genuine, deep-tissue sincerity, while Mr. James, whose slashing cheekbones look as if they could do some serious damage, is good at keeping a straight face.
(He’s had practice: Until now, he was best known for croaking in Lady Mary’s bed in “Downton Abbey.”) The characters trade many moony looks as well as spit, but their cute, farcically overdetermined match — he thrusts with penetrating stares, while she parries by retreating and looking at her feet or a wall — grows wearisome when it becomes clear that there’s not much else going on.(Download Divergent) Lots of things happen, of course, as per the dystopian rule book, but for all the jumping and scaling of heights, the movie remains grounded.The story, adapted by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor, opens with Tris living with her family in Abnegation, a faction whose inhabitants have embraced selflessness to the point of pride and who wear drab, flowing clothes that suggest that Eileen Fisher managed to survive Armageddon. Tris, however, yearns to run wild with Dauntless, a faction that puts a premium on courage, fearlessness, piercings, tattoos and hair gel.
Each faction — the others are Amity, Candor and Erudite — lives according to restricted values in order to keep the peace and considers an outlier like Tris, called Divergent, as a threat. It doesn’t make any sense, but Ms. Roth’s prose style is good enough and Tris appealing enough that, at least in the book, it’s easy to breeze past the plot holes.It’s harder to ignore those flaws in the movie,(Download Divergent) partly because the director, Neil Burger (“Limitless”), gives you little to hang onto — beauty, thrills, a visual style. The script, or what’s left of it, doesn’t help, because someone (it’s impossible to know who merits most of the blame in a big enterprise like this) has made the familiar blunder of thinking that the most important thing in adapting a book to the screen is the stuff that happens rather than to whom it happens. That the Dauntless inhabitants like to jump on and off moving trains or clamber up buildings like monkeys isn’t interesting or novel. What matters is how thrillingly free and alive Tris feels when she hurtles across an abyss or zip-lines over the ruined city.
“Fear doesn’t shut you down,” Four tells Tris, “it wakes you up.”You have to take his word for it. It’s hard not to root for Ms. Woodley, who has been coming on strong in recent indie titles like “The Descendants” and “The Spectacular Now,” but she seems palpably uncomfortable here. There’s a tentative, awkward quality to her physical performance that at times registers as a lack of confidence and that, as the story progresses, is badly at odds with her character’s intensifying ferocity.(Download Divergent) That hardly seems like Ms. Woodley’s fault, given that she’s ill-served by the production on so many levels, from the fight choreography to the dialogue and those eyelashes. But it’s finally galling because women will never break out of the representational ghetto they’ve been relegated to if you watch a movie like this one and think that the heroine, metaphorically and otherwise, throws like a girl.There’s an awfully familiar feeling to Divergent, the movie based on the best-selling novel by Veronica Roth: post-apocalyptic landscape, the almost colorless tones, the drab clothes—and, eventually, our ruthlessly scorned hero.
It’s impossible to ignore the overwhelming sense that we’ve seen all this before, only with better execution, in this fall’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.In a futuristic, bombed-out Chicago, residents choose to live as part of one of five geographic factions based partly on a government–administered personality test. If you like living off the land in harmony, you choose Amity. If you get kicks from adrenaline-fueled, strangely acrobatic law enforcement, you choose Dauntless.(Download Divergent) You also have the option of Erudite, Candor and the enticing Abnegation. Weirdly, future Chicagoans are pretty much O.K. with this. The city appears content.Problems start when Tris (Shailene Woodley) discovers on Choosing Day that she is a rare, uncategorizable Divergent. This means she’s not just a freethinker; she’s also dangerous! And, darn it, Erudite faction leader Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet, as the leader of the intellectual folk) is hell-bent on stopping young Tris (born Beatrice, for all admirers of Dante), even though we never know quite why she’s such a threat.
Against her parents’ wishes, Tris chooses the Dauntless faction and soon finds herself jumping from moving trains and plummeting from rooftops. She eventually befriends Dauntless dude Four (Theo James), who of course has secrets of his own. The real secret, though, is that Divergent has scarcely anything new to say.Which is a shame, because Woodley’s performance is wasted on what is starting to feel like a young-adult novel action-movie template, as opposed to a movie that at least attempts to explain why we should care about what’s happening on the screen.(Download Divergent) For a film that supposedly celebrates freethinking, there’s a woeful lack of it here.The spine of nearly every popular young adult novel is the idea of personal identity; that journey of self-discovery in which the protagonist, usually a teenaged girl, finds her inner strength while saving the world. This typically means bucking the societal norms of some dystopian future, and if there's a cute boy to make out with then even better! Veronica Roth's Divergent, the first of her best-selling trilogy (aren't they all best-selling trilogies, though?) takes an overly simplistic, somewhat absurd approach to the theme of self-discovery but benefits by fully developing the world in which that idea is explored.
However, it's that world which is left sorely lacking as the transition is made to the big screen, leaving the rest wide open to some harsh scrutiny.Blandly directed by Neil Burger and based off a photo-copied script by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor, the world of Divergent is so bereft of stakes, momentum, and originality it becomes as taxing as the aptitude tests suffered by the lead character. In a future version of Chicago (an element hidden in the novels but freely revealed in the film,(Download Divergent) for simplicity's sake), humanity has been divided up into five ideological factions in the wake of a post-apocalyptic event. A somewhat muted Shailene Woodley plays Beatrice Prior, born into the faction known as Abnegation, noted for being selfless and extremely dull. The other factions are Candor (honesty); Amity (um, they're kinda friendly); Erudite (intelligence); and Dauntless, known for their bravery. At the age of 16, everyone must take an aptitude test to help decide which faction to choose. The system, installed mysteriously by the government, comes back inconclusive for Beatrice. Turns out she's a "divergent", someone with many attributes and thus unfit for any single faction.
But Beatrice has always had her eye on the Dauntless because they run around, climb stuff, wear tight clothes, and get tattoos, so when the time comes to choose, that's where she goes.The decision to switch factions is apparently a really big deal, the kind that breaks up entire families, but we are never really clued in why. The structure and rules of this society are poorly explained and full of logic gaps. A tension between the factions exists because the plot demands it be so,(Download Divergent) but the flimsy explanations for it leave much to be desired. Kate Winslet rocks a mean pantsuit (it's all she does) as Jeanine, an Erudite leader fomenting hatred against Abnegation and specifically Beatrice's family. She's also on the hunt for divergents, presumed to be dangerous because they think for themselves or something. It's worth noting that, despite the separation into factions, each person can still think and act of their own accord. It's frowned upon but it happens, and that fact makes the whole divergent thing in desperate need of clarification.
Re-christened "Tris" after joining Dauntless, the majority of the film is how she acclimates to her new group. Becoming an official member of Dauntless is no picnic, requiring weeks of combat and mental training. Coming from Abnegation, she's nicknamed "Stiff" and must prove her mettle in any number of crazy tasks. With the exception of best friend Christina (Zoe Kravitz),(Download Divergent) the douche bag Peter (Miles Teller, Woodley's The Spectacular Now co-star), and hunky trainer, Four (Theo James), most of the other initiates might as well not exist. It proceeds pretty much as one would expect it to with little in the way of surprises. Tris starts off lousy, and then goes through a quick montage where she starts improving her scores. Meanwhile, theoretical sparks fly between her and Four, who helps Tris hide her divergence while keeping his own secrets close to the vest.
While every adaptation should stand on its own, it's tough to look at the changes made and not get a little frustrated. Roth offers some good ideas to work with that may connect with younger audiences, namely how making those first adult decisions can be an alienating experience, judged by family and friends alike. Forging one's own destiny, even if it leads far from those held dear,(Watch Divergent Online In Just A Few Minutes) is a rite of passage most teens can relate to. But the film removes any complexity, especially in Tris' relationships with her parents and Four. A big part of her character is the conflicted feelings she feels over leaving Abnegation, and the fear she has of losing her parents' love. It comes back up towards the big finale but without the proper context. Her budding love affair with Four could have been ported over from somewhere else and nobody would notice.
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At 140 whopping minutes the pace is sluggish at best, only ramping up towards the end as a sinister plot comes to a head in a hail of gun fire. Woodley is no action star, and lacks the physical presence of Jennifer Lawrence, but she makes Tris' transformation from uncertain girl to confident leader believable and at times enjoyable. Even if her performance is a tad reserved it fits with her character's humble origins. If there's a reason to anticipate further sequels, it's her.(Watch Movies Online Without Downloading) While James' booming voice will have women swooning and guys jealous, that's pretty much all he has to offer as a romantic lead. Winslet rarely signs on for blockbusters like this, and hopefully the one-dimensional character she was given will remind her why.Ironically, Divergent is meant to celebrate individuality yet there's nothing special about it to separate from the rest of the YA pack.
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