I was going to write a short book review but I haven’t
actually finished a book recently (terrible I know) and I don’t want to
overwork whatever brain cells I have left to try and remember what I thought of
a book I read years ago. Being the genius that I am I remembered that I haven’t
actually shed light about what I thought of the Divergent movie. Scandalous as
that is.
I was very late to join the dystopian train; I read
Divergent about a week before the movie came out as I never thought I would
like it; how wrong was I. Therefore I didn’t bother getting too hyped up about
the movie even though I was excited to see it. Usually I stalk everybody
involved on twitter or try to find out as much as I can but with Divergent I
didn’t bother. I knew what I needed to know and I was excited enough.
So I managed to watch it a month or two after it came out
from my lack of enthusiasm towards the movie and my thinking of it being ruined
by Evan. I watched it in the comfort of my bed and I was sitting gaping at the
screen half the time. I absolutely loved it. The fact that one of my favourite
books came to life in front of me was amazing; and the fact that it was done so
incredibly well amazed me even further. Neil Burger the guy who directed this
along with the Illusionist which is one of my movies to watch when I’m ill in
bed for some reason…
So to sum up my big mess of a review which I just noticed
mostly centres around the fact that I wasn’t excited to see this film… the
movie was great. I think it captured the world beautifully, it also had my name
in on the scoreboard so that is always a plus. The one thing; actually two
things that I would love to see would have been the love interest between Tris
and Four. I feel like if I haven’t read the book I wouldn’t have known they
were meant to be so in love. During the movie it seemed to me as if they just
had small crushes on each other and nothing more. The second thing that I think
every single fan of the Divergent series would have loved to seen was the whole
entire book fit into this movie. I will forever be saying this whenever an adaptation
is made. The whole book must be in the movie somehow. The whole production team was great, all the
actors were fantastic, the script writer didn’t mess up and the lovely director
did a great job.