From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:48:34 AM UTC-7, T987654321 wrote:   
   > Divergent   
   > 2014 PG-13 139 minutes    
   > Average rating: 2.2   
   >    
   > Born into a civilization in the distant future, Beatrice is a teenager who   
   learns that her unique cognitive skills make her useful to the authorities.   
   Over time she discovers that she's a Divergent, and thus slated for   
   elimination by the government.   
      
   If her cognitive skills are useful to the authorities, why would they slate   
   her for elimination?   
   >    
   >    
   > Beatrice isn't strong she is weak.  First she's a good little sheeple who   
   goes along with the grotesque program.  Then she chooses to join the Thug   
   faction.    
      
   Are there other factions called "Raiders", "Pirates", "Goons", "Terrorists",   
   "Gangs", "Crips", "Bloods", "Druggies", "Smugglers", "Illegals", "Murderers",   
   "Slaughters", etc?   
      
   > Finally she uses more and more violence to save the day.      
      
   At the end, soldiers had been injected with a serum that made them suggestible   
   to any order, such as an order to kill all the civilians.  Beatrice injects   
   that serum into a woman who is in charge of the program, and is thus able to   
   order her to undo the    
   troops' conditioning and delete the program.  Why doesn't Beatrice make that   
   woman order the troops to overthrow the government?   
      
      
   > The setting isn't very credible either, there's just no way the remains of   
   Chicago would support the society depicted.  And then there's all the things   
   not answered, like where did the lake go?   
      
   Global warming?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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