Divergent Review — cinemablend.com

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.

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