![]() Meanwhile, despite Jeanine's quest to capture those slippery Divergents, characters like Tris's brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort) somehow switch castes three times without any bureaucrats raising an eyebrow. This allows new-to-the-series German director Robert Schwentke to hammer chords of Berlin 1938, with Winslet's hair bleached an overdetermined shade of platinum. Headed by the wicked Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the Erudites launch a witch-hunt to ID and ghettoize - or worse - every hidden Divergent, since she believes they're responsible for the nuclear war that wiped out all life outside the city's gates. The nicest thing you can say about Insurgent is that no one involved in the making of it would test positive for the intelligent Erudites, but then author Roth has, perhaps out of spite, reframed smart as evil. It's all so muddled that when we experience a simulation test for all five groups, half the time we can't even tell what the category is (even when, you know, the point of the film hinges on it). ![]() clan Candor, who are lauded for their honesty despite the fact that everyone else in the film also speaks in straightforward declaratives. To amplify the confusion, Abnegation means "selfless," according to the logic of the film, except when it means "forgiving," and Amity means "forgiving" except when it means "hippie." Ignore that these five branches of career don't seem to add up to a functioning economy, unless you believe that 20 percent of the world should be composed of lawyers, a.k.a. One would think that people who combine the separate traits would be called Convergent, but then one would be expecting the source material to exert the barest minimum effort. And then there's a seventh, furtive faction who register positive for the traits of all five tribes, classifying them as Divergent. Outside of the system, there is a sixth class made up of the homeless, rather politely called "Factionless," who act indistinguishably from the Dauntless, except that they're allowed to dress like the Ramones. Each group is assigned a job that kinda-sorta relates to their inborn personality - the brave Dauntless make up the militia, the peaceful Amity are, er, farmers - and expected to marry their own and, more often than not, produce children like them. (Aren't they all.) Tris continues to flail against a postapocalyptic city-state where all residents are divided at maturation into one of five biologically based clans: Amity, Abnegation, Dauntless, Candor and Erudite. ![]() Divergent, and now this new sequel, Insurgent, tracks the monotone mishaps of Tris (Shailene Woodley), a very special girl. We're two films into the kiddie-dystopia Divergent franchise, and it's still unclear if the sequel's director, three screenwriters, eight producers and especially original novelist Veronica Roth have bothered to double-check a dictionary.
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