Divergent is based on the best-selling book series by Veronica Roth. It’s a thrilling action filled movie with bits of romance sneaking in. The movie takes place in Chicago during present day. The city is divided up into five categories which define where each human belongs. Each person has a chance to take a test which will allow them to be placed into a category.
Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley), the main character, is warned she is Divergent after taking her test and having it come back “inconclusive”. She is told she will never fit into any single group. Divergent is about identity. You’re supposed to know who you are and where you belong.
With Tris not knowing where she fits in, she’s forced to choose a category and hopes she can fool everyone in thinking it’s her fate. She chooses the toughest group to join, leaving her parents behind. Tris has a hard time training in the beginning but soon conquers the rest of her boot camp.
Once Tris discovers that one of the leaders of the town (Kate Winslet) wants to destroy all Divergents, Tris pairs up with her trainer, named Four (Theo James) and together they begin their journey to stop the leaders.
The plot get more thrilling as we discover what kind of person Tris’ mother actually is and how Four is involved with the leaders. Romance comes into play with the two main characters, Tris and Four after they learn they have similar interests. Tris becomes a heroin after she ends the fight against her kind.
