Divide by Zero
The Living Force
I got to see this movie last weekend and liked it as much as the first and second ones.
The story has some plot holes, but that is typical with the lazy writers/producers who are competing with total garbage films.
Spoiler alert!
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We learned in the first and second movie that a Divergent is a person who doesn't fit one group. They are rare and the administration was seeking them out as a threat to the social order. The rest of the people fit within defined groups - eg. Law enforcement/military, government, intellectual/academic, social support, labor and so on. It makes me think about authoritarian followers. Divergent are akin to those who can start the unilevel disintegration that Dabrowski talks about.
In the second movie it gets revealed that the divergent are the ones who are the future of humanity, because they can rise above the typical reactions of humanity that lead to the mentioned world war(s) that almost wiped out humanity.
Start of this movie:
The new leader of Chicago, decides to close the gates. She feels that it could be dangerous for people to leave until they are sure about the conditions outside the walls.
Meanwhile, there are trials where the officers of the former brutal leadership are being put on trial. The new leader decides to let mob rule take over which pushes into executions and a split in the new leadership.
Tris and the other protagonists decide to escape the city, taking her brother with them - who is facing a trial/execution.
We learn that the world has been destroyed by nukes a few hundred years ago. The world outside of Chicago's walls is toxic- colored reddish like Mars, with huge craters and erosion from persistent red rains.
They reach a point where a highly advanced group welcome them and bring them to their city.
The leader of this settlement explains that there is another city like theirs, in Providence. The destruction was caused by the mass proliferation of genetic modification, which split society. The genetic modification also created more agressive traits, sounding very much like psychopathy and even more authoritarian follower tendency- so people were not able to stop the divide between them.
Chicago is an experiment to see whether these genetically "unpure" people can heal their genes to go back to what humanity was before the technology messed up genes. Tris was the first one to have pure genes, which explains her ability to think outside the box. The leader, David explains how he needs to show her to the council at Providence in order to prove that 'damaged' people can be saved.
We find out later that David was hiding many things from Tris. He was kidnapping children from the uncivilized lands, erasing their memories and putting them into the Chicago experiment, while killing the older parents/people. He tried to explain it as humanitarian, to help the human race, but it seemed more like a form of justified eugenics, much like the west does these days invading a country in order to bring "democracy".
More politics and fighting ensues until Tris decides to escape and tell Chicago that they have been an experiment and the outside cities are not really benevolent, but see them as sub human in some ways.
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I found it a good way of showing where humanity is heading towards. I tend to like dystopias, probably because we live in one these days.
What is scary is that a crash of society starts off with a good ideal, to return to what is good and fair, but quickly gets corrupted for relatively simplistic gain. In the case of David, he just wanted more money and power from his research, which lead to shady practices in order to get the results he needed.
I sometimes feel like this reality as it is, with the 4d STS experimenting on us is similar to that world. We're poked and prodded in the direction of war and despite our technology and "education", we have grown to be more and more subjective and dissasociative, much like the class system developed in Chicago in order to "keep the peace". Like the movie, on this planet, those who think for themselves are quickly pushed aside as crazy or are deemed a threat to society.
The story has some plot holes, but that is typical with the lazy writers/producers who are competing with total garbage films.
Spoiler alert!
___________________________________________________________
We learned in the first and second movie that a Divergent is a person who doesn't fit one group. They are rare and the administration was seeking them out as a threat to the social order. The rest of the people fit within defined groups - eg. Law enforcement/military, government, intellectual/academic, social support, labor and so on. It makes me think about authoritarian followers. Divergent are akin to those who can start the unilevel disintegration that Dabrowski talks about.
In the second movie it gets revealed that the divergent are the ones who are the future of humanity, because they can rise above the typical reactions of humanity that lead to the mentioned world war(s) that almost wiped out humanity.
Start of this movie:
The new leader of Chicago, decides to close the gates. She feels that it could be dangerous for people to leave until they are sure about the conditions outside the walls.
Meanwhile, there are trials where the officers of the former brutal leadership are being put on trial. The new leader decides to let mob rule take over which pushes into executions and a split in the new leadership.
Tris and the other protagonists decide to escape the city, taking her brother with them - who is facing a trial/execution.
We learn that the world has been destroyed by nukes a few hundred years ago. The world outside of Chicago's walls is toxic- colored reddish like Mars, with huge craters and erosion from persistent red rains.
They reach a point where a highly advanced group welcome them and bring them to their city.
The leader of this settlement explains that there is another city like theirs, in Providence. The destruction was caused by the mass proliferation of genetic modification, which split society. The genetic modification also created more agressive traits, sounding very much like psychopathy and even more authoritarian follower tendency- so people were not able to stop the divide between them.
Chicago is an experiment to see whether these genetically "unpure" people can heal their genes to go back to what humanity was before the technology messed up genes. Tris was the first one to have pure genes, which explains her ability to think outside the box. The leader, David explains how he needs to show her to the council at Providence in order to prove that 'damaged' people can be saved.
We find out later that David was hiding many things from Tris. He was kidnapping children from the uncivilized lands, erasing their memories and putting them into the Chicago experiment, while killing the older parents/people. He tried to explain it as humanitarian, to help the human race, but it seemed more like a form of justified eugenics, much like the west does these days invading a country in order to bring "democracy".
More politics and fighting ensues until Tris decides to escape and tell Chicago that they have been an experiment and the outside cities are not really benevolent, but see them as sub human in some ways.
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I found it a good way of showing where humanity is heading towards. I tend to like dystopias, probably because we live in one these days.
What is scary is that a crash of society starts off with a good ideal, to return to what is good and fair, but quickly gets corrupted for relatively simplistic gain. In the case of David, he just wanted more money and power from his research, which lead to shady practices in order to get the results he needed.
I sometimes feel like this reality as it is, with the 4d STS experimenting on us is similar to that world. We're poked and prodded in the direction of war and despite our technology and "education", we have grown to be more and more subjective and dissasociative, much like the class system developed in Chicago in order to "keep the peace". Like the movie, on this planet, those who think for themselves are quickly pushed aside as crazy or are deemed a threat to society.