Divergent: To be or not to be

            Divergent is a Veronica Roth’s 2011 bestseller. Now, the film adaptation of the novel has people on different ends of the board. People loved it. People hated it.

            Peter Travers from Rolling Stone magazine definitely did not like it. Patricia Garcia from Vogue magazine is a fan. Who do we believe?

            Travers cuts straight to the chase by dissing the movie in his lead claiming it couldn't stir palpitations in shut-ins and calling the movie bland and lifeless. The word burn appeared in my head in capital leaders and in flames.

            While he’s in favor of the choice of Shailene Woodley playing the protagonist, there was no onscreen chemistry between her and Theo James who plays her love interest.

            Travers blames director, Neil Burger for failing to perk up the script.

            Now on to Divergent’s cheerleader from Vogue. Garcia claims that Divergent appeals to all audiences like “science fiction nerds,” “those suffering from Ryan Gosling withdrawal,” “indie film snobs,” “Spotify addict,” and the “Hunger Games freak.”

            Garcia compares Divergent to the novel Brave New World. I have to respect this claim because in Divergent citizens are split up into groups based on their personalities. Brave New World runs on a divided up class system. This comparison gave the cheerleader a brain.

            “Divergent will definitely appeal to those who crave a little more postapocalyptic conflict in their lives.” And this is where Garcia’s brain disappeared. A dystopian world and a post-apocalyptic world are two different things! A dystopia is the opposite of utopia. It is an undesirable society, while a post-apocalyptic world is a world after an apocalypse.