The pair is so often rescued by the auspicious arrival of allies that any suspense concerning their survival feels coerced: Clap right in front of someone's face once, and they'll jolt. Tris and Four spend most of the film running away from Jeanine's henchmen, getting caught, and then slipping away again, a cycle that continues on and on until the last moments. Traumatized by the death of her parents, Tris cuts her hair short because that is what tormented women on screen do (it’s okay, though, her boyfriend reluctantly approves). Insurgent picks up shortly after Divergent ended: Tris, Four, and some other Dauntless are on the lam, but have taken refuge in Amity's hippie commune. The only thing is, Jeanine needs a pure Divergent to pass all the simulation tests for each faction in order to open the box. Tris and Four escape, but the Erudite leader Jeanine obtains a special box (protected by Tris' parents) whose mysterious contents are rumored to be able to destroy Divergents. The pair's identities are discovered, and Tris' parents die trying to protect her. During Tris' training, the two fall in love, but they learn of a plot by the Erudite faction to overthrow the ruling Abnegation faction by pulling Dauntless into a war. But the movie's disregard for cause-and-effect ( dei ex machina abound), meaningful relationships, and plot hamstrings its efforts to gather narrative momentum for the trilogy's two-part finale, despite the major twist and cliffhanger at Insurgent's close.Ī brief recap of the events of Divergent: Tris conceals her identity as a Divergent and joins the Dauntless faction, where she meets an instructor named Four (Theo James), who's also a secret Divergent. Even after all the detailed world-building that took place in the first film, Insurgent still feels like a pale universe desperately trying to manufacture chaos and emotion for the sake of chaos and emotion. 1 were all of those things but managed to tell a complex story with a riveting heroine and cast of supporting characters. The Hunger Games: Catching Fireand its successor Mockingjay Pt.
But Insurgent isn’t a bad film because it's a sequel, or because it’s based on a YA novel, or because it’s not particularly original. Perhaps not much should be expected from the follow-up to a widely-panned film based on a derivative-of-a-derivative hit YA novel trilogy by Veronica Roth. The Western Mythmaking of Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog Kevin Townsend, Shirley Li, David Sims, and Spencer Kornhaber
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