[Movie review] The scenery outside the wall remains-"Divergent 3: Loyal to the World"

At the end of "Divergent 2", in front of the huge wall that blocked the entire city, the gate was slowly opening, leaving infinite suspense for the world outside the wall. However, in the opening scene of "Divergent 3", the door was suddenly closed again!

After enough foreshadowing, the "Divergent" series of movies finally extended the factional struggles and human contradictions confined to a small Chicago city to the outside. At the end of "Divergent 2", in front of the huge wall that blocked the entire city, the gate was slowly opening, leaving infinite suspense for the world outside the wall. However, in the opening scene of "Divergent 3", the door was suddenly closed again!

"Divergent 3: Loyal to the World" (network map)

Seeing this circling and procrastinating plot, it is estimated that the general audience can not help but curse. It turned out that after the coup d’état succeeded in replacing the villain Zhenning, the mother of the protagonist Xiaosi flagrantly announced the blockade of the wall and began to purge the former establishment. This really corresponds to the words in the textbook: "The slave uprising is not to promote social change, but to become slave owners." Several core members of the ruling faction were shot and killed one by one by enthusiastic and unaffiliated people. Fortunately, The protagonist and heroine kept a detached sobriety. They rescued a group of relatives and friends, including the little slippery Peter, who had always defected before, sneaking close to the wall and preparing to climb. However, the wall was turned on by Xiaosi’s mother with high-voltage electricity. The guards who came to the news also intercepted them violently. After the fierce battle, the protagonists successfully climbed over the fence and escaped into the wilderness outside. So far, the film really kicked off the curtain outside the wall.

The environment outside was very harsh, acid rain was falling in the air, bloody streams on the ground, and chasers inside the walls also ran out to pursue them, making the crowd very embarrassed. When they were driven to desperation by the chasers, a door was suddenly opened in midair, and several magical flying machines appeared, blasting the chasing soldiers into scum. It turned out that this harsh wilderness is effective enough to camouflage the wall with fakes. Behind the camouflage wall, there has always been an armed force guard called the "Gene Bureau" who, like a doorman, specializes in welcoming people who break out of the city. The site of the Genetics Bureau is the real world beyond the wall.

The protagonists washed away the dust and began to come into contact with the dazzling variety of high-tech controlled by the Genetics Bureau. Soon they learned that Chicago is one of the many experimental cities observed and controlled by the Genetics Bureau. Select outstanding talents everywhere. At this moment, the protagonists are like graduates who have come to big cities from remote mountainous areas, and they start new jobs in different positions with full of longing. Little Slicker Peter and others are engaged in remote surveillance of Chicago. The little four joins the army for individual training while using the protagonist's halo to get in touch with David, the supreme ruler of this area. David spoke highly of Tracy’s disagreement characteristics, calling her the only genetically pure person, and handing Tracy an honorable task: accompany him to lobby the leaders of higher committees to obtain funding to restore order in Chicago. And help people in other cities. With a sense of justice and dedication, Tris accepted this task with a sacred heart. Everything is developing in the direction of prosperity.

Seeing this, the audience may be able to guess the direction of the next plot, because the style of the Gene Bureau is very similar to Chicago City: the desire for power, the pride of justice, the indifference to other lives, to the former Fuzhu villain Zhenning. The first thing he discovered was something wrong. When he was performing the task to "save" the children elsewhere, he discovered that the method he used was to forcibly snatch the children from their parents, and erase the children’s memory with serum to make them After entering the genetic bureau to re-behave, even Triss' mother had the experience of growing up in the genetic bureau. Gradually, David's face began to be exposed, but Tracey was still stubborn, and despite the little fourth's persuasion, she resolutely followed David to lobby at the upper-level leadership agency. The little Si was desperate, and had no choice but to return to Chicago for help. At this time, Peter, who is always rebellious, seized the opportunity and successfully rebelled again. He took the initiative to seek refuge in David and chose to return to Chicago to perform a secret mission. It turns out that David’s so-called "restoring order" is to prevent Chicago from getting out of control. It is necessary to put vaporized memory serum in the air circulation system to erase all the memories of the Chicago people and make Chicago restart like a plug in the power supply. All back to the starting point, continue to play the five major factions. When Tracey followed David to accuse the evil faction system and fooled the leaders, he was reminded by the leaders that Chicago was under the sole control of David, and the faction was not the committee. Tracey began to doubt life.

Normally, when the villain is pierced or in danger of being pierced, he will jump over the wall and preemptively, but David is a typical case of demeanor and face. He allowed Tracey to steal his privileged spacecraft and fly to Chicago for investigation, only to call afterwards. Some useless airships to intercept. Peter, who had been to the city before, met the little fourth mother who was struggling with the rebellion in the city and told him that I have a big trick to clear the memories of the enemies with the vaporized memory serum so that they won’t remember you. What has been done so that it will not oppose your rule. The little fourth mother was tempted without thinking too much, but she didn't even think about it. Why can the memory serum from outside distinguish the enemy and the enemy in the city?

"Divergent 3: Loyal to the World" (network map)

Finally, in order to prevent the whole city from restarting, Tracee and Xiaosi played a bomb-like affection card: Once you restart, your son and daughter-in-law won't remember who you are. The impact of family affection instantly smashed the already distraught Little Si mother. At this time, Little Slick Peter once again revealed his ability to single-handedly control the plot by himself. He injured Little Si mother who was trying to repent and continued to release. serum. Thick, bloody smoke billowed all over the city, people coughing ceaselessly, it seemed that everything was irreversible. Just when David, who was holding the winning ticket, was admiring all this through remote monitoring, Tracey blew up the central air-conditioning generator, so the serum stopped spreading, and the bloody smoke faded in the air, and that was it-it was all right. .

The city of Chicago was saved, and the surviving people cleared the barriers between the five major factions, and under the leadership of Trisie and others, announced their separation from the control of the Bureau of Genetics and began to embark on the evolutionary path of self-reliance. After the "restart" conspiracy was thwarted, the city of Chicago as a microcosm of society has undergone changes, and no one in the city allowed it to revert to the previous cruel era. However, the ambitious David is still staring bitterly at every corner of Chicago. At the end of the film, when Tracee impassionedly announced the independence of Chicago, David was merging himself with the scene through remote monitoring. He stood coldly on the podium, standing beside Tracey and the others. This close contrast brought a huge sense of horror to the audience, and he was deeply worried about the future of Chicago: Can they really survive independently?

At the end of the original novel "The Divergent", Tracee gave her life to Chicago, leaving only the lonely memory of Xiao Si. The screenwriter may find it difficult to accept this dull and tragic ending. At the same time, he wants to leave room for a possible sequel, so he changed it to a sublimated version of the current contradiction. From a standpoint point of view, unlike the complex symbolic meaning of the strict factions of the Divergent One and Two Miles, the contradictory opposition between the Gene Bureau and Chicago City in this film more clearly alludes to the differences between social preservation and advancement. Bilateral forces, the steadfastness of vested interests, and the awakening of the people at the bottom have become a strong contrast. The resistance of people without factions to the erudite school is similar to the counterattack of Chicago against the Bureau of Genetics. ——History is always progressing, and at the same time it is constantly reincarnation. The difference between the world inside and outside the wall may only lie in the tree of science and technology, but the laws of social evolution, as well as the flaws and shining points of human nature, are similar.

Inside and outside the walls, there is still the same landscape and the same sky.