Wow, so much potential lost by a lazy author

Rating: 6/10 (18 August 2014)

This movie is a good concept but it is as frustrating as somebody playing "is" on a triple word square in scrabble. what a waste! it is a movie made from a popular book. Like the hunger games, it is teenage angst where life is impossibly hard to be a teenager. Unlike the hunger games it isn't realistic. The basic premise of the story is stupid but the symbolism is still there. In the future everybody belongs to 1 of 5 specialized government groups to perform each activity of society. Normally children join the clan of their parents but at 18 they are free to choose any clan they want. Excellent symbolism of a large meeting hall and each kid called to the front and cuts their hand and drips blood into a pot signifying their choice. They are never allowed to change their choice thereafter. Great imagery to real life choices of college and career faced to young kids, but the movie just gets stupid after that. One clan wants to eliminate the other clan and brain washes all of the protectors into fighting their battle but the "divergent" people (not clearly dis-positioned to a specific clan as indicated by the "test") are not brain-washable. So she recognizes the plot and stops the take over. The significance of being "divergent" parallels nothing in real life and the clan vs clan battle is a weakly veiled liberal attack on the Military being nothing more than brain washed bullies being used as pawns by the politicians. So GREAT potential of struggles of growing up with major life choices but lost in poor story, bad author..try harder, it was right in front of you and you got lazy!!!!