Well played, good scenes, but way too many opportunities missed

Rating: 6/10 (23 July 2014)

They lost out HUGE on this one. I haven't read any of the books, note do I intend to after watching this movie. Although most of the scenes are quite good, they failed to complete the movie and give it the proper depth. Smaller scenes should have been included, in which they explain the current situation in Chicago. How are the factions working together? How did they came to be? Why is every faction acting for itself? All this is basic information which could have proved very helpful to get a feeling of the actual development in politics and society. Obviously there is some sort of media. Who is in charge of the media? What role did it play in all this? How is it being used to influence people to tolerate this slaughter? Then there are these mind tests. What role do they play exactly? How does every faction member benefit from them after he/ she has already chosen his specific faction? Is their only use to detect divergents? Since when have divergents been a problem to all the factions? Obviously divergents have been executed for years, but the plan of the Erudite could not have spread through all the factions before Matthews, causing a general tolerance in most faction in killing off divegents. Could it? If so, wouldn't all the factions be corrupt and therefore know that something is up? Why else would all the factions have persecuted divergents? In the end, when all the Dauntless are confused about what happened, why didn't Tris and Four tell other Dauntless to follow them? Obviously the confused ones would want some answers. Tris and Four would have had an audience and could have explained what happened. They would have an army of awoken Dauntless who would want to make good or at least call the people who abused them to justice. This is how the first part could have ended, in order to build up for a second part in which the "rebels" would get control over the system and start to rebuild in a less dystopic way. After all, it is well made and well played film, but unfortunately it failed to give the audience the proper back story and to include a few details here and there, which would have completed the movie. Very unfortunate.