Watch Divergent Online Divergent wasn’t made for me, a married father of
two whose societal role – or “faction,” to borrow a relevant term – was
established years ago. I acknowledged that, even as I enjoyed the bulk
of Neil Burger’s franchise-launching adaptation of author Veronica
Roth’s young-adult novel. It’s a laudable, confident start to a
potentially exciting series – the fate of which now rests in your hands.
On its surface, Divergent looks like post-apocalyptic, science-fiction
escapism. Roth’s story exists in a distant yet recognizable future,
where survivors of an unseen war have walled themselves away from an
unseen threat in the bombed out city of Chicago… or, what’s left of it.
Desperate to survive and eager to restore some sense of order, society
now divides individuals into groupings known as factions.
Honest truth-talkers are assigned to Candor. Intelligent folk land in Erudite.
The bravest of the brave defend the city as members of Dauntless. Since
we don’t have a Sorting Hat, teens take a “test” that tells them which
faction they’re destined to join. The choice, however, ultimately rests
with them.
