I read the trilogy of books long before they made the first movie and of course the others that followed, I found it a challenge to adapt the novel to film but after enjoying it with critical eyes and I must confess that the work done by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor was very good.
The plot revolves around a futuristic and dystopian city of Chicago where society is divided into five factions, according to their innate abilities, these are Abnegation, Cordiality, Truth, Boldness and Erudition, the rest of the population are the abandoned or excluded who have no privileges in society.
To determine the aptitude of the population, when adolescents reach the age of 16 they are subjected to a sleep-induced test, although they can later determine which faction to join, they generally join the one they were told to join.
Although they apparently all have the same privileges this is not the case as the Agnegation faction in the ruling council is the one that has the most weight in making decisions and in fact is the one that runs the form of government which can be determined as a mixture of current political forms.
In that world, supposedly perfect, there is what could be considered a sixth faction that is outlawed and persecuted for being able to possess skills of various factions, these are eliminated so that they do not break the supposed balance of that dystopian world and are called divergent.
Many of these coexist hidden in some faction taking advantage of their ability to camouflage themselves, while others prefer to mingle with the abandoned.
In the novel and film the main characters are Beatrice Prior played by Shailene Woodley, winner of the 2010 Young Artist of the Year Award, while Theo James plays the role of Tobias, also known as Four, who is a divergent infiltrating the system, along with a large group of actors in other roles including Kate Winslet.
The film was released on March 21, 2014 and the reviews were mixed, some considered it to be very predictable while others praised the adaptation of the script and the performance of its protagonists.
It was directed by Neil Burger, known for having directed the mockumentary Interview with the Assassin in 2002, the film The Illusionist in 2006.
The film cost $85 million to produce and grossed more than $285 million at the box office, a testament to the film's popularity with moviegoers.
Two more films of the saga were made, but none achieved higher box office takings than this one.
It is a film where there are many hidden messages and shows a not so futuristic reality.
