Okay first of all I want to point out I'm on very cheap tablet, so don't get mad if I mistype or some crap, oh and this whole blog is a spoiler.
Anyways here we go..
Okay so this movie is kind of the same as The Hunger Games, people don't like who is running the government so they overthrow it. But there is a big difference, the people who are over running it are the bad people where as the government is doing a good job at whatever, the people over running it are doing it for the wrong reason, because they want everyone to be drones, non-human, no affection or anything of sorts, that is what they want humanity to be.
So the movie is about 2 hours 11 minutes and 51 seconds.
The movie does a pretty good job with detail on the parts it does show other then the part where Al, Peter and whoever attempts to kill "Tris" , THERE ISNT A WATERFALL IN THE SCENE, LIKE REALLY.
The movie skips tons of stuff, and I mean a lot of stuff. If I never read the series I wouldn't understand any of this movie.
It does include one kissing scene, out of the 20 or 30 that are in the book.
Speaking of scenes a few of them were changed. Where Tris makes it to the second or third test she doesn't in the movie. In the movie she gets knocked out by Peter for a good day then ends up playing capture the flag by escaping Dauntless and jumping on the train, I don't know, maybe it's just me.
Now details: The Pit looks pretty small like tiny, the paths to get down to the pit were steel stairs which saddened me.
Chicago: Chicago looked great in this movie it seemed to exactly replicate the book.
The train: In the book I imangined the train to be an open cars freight train not a passenger train with doors closed.
Otherwise this is a really good movie for the scenes it includes, I really think you should see it, and have a good day.
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In the book the pit is full of water, Tris did NOT get kicked out of Dauntless by Eric, Jeanine was not in the scene with Four when he is under simulation, they added a fear to both Tris's and Fours fear simulation and left out others, Christina is the one that got the flag during Capture the Flag, not Tris, Peter stabs Edwards eye, and Uriah, Edward, Marlene, Lynn, Zeke and a bunch others aren't even in it, and Tris gets in trouble when she came back from Eurodite, and there's some other stuff but I can't remember because its been a while since I read the first book.
The reference to the fence is for world building and it does NOT mean that they combined the two books. They simply took a detail from Insurgent and placed it in the movie. If it were a combination you'd see what happens after, when they travel to Amity and the other factions, and it would be a complete mess. They did not put both books into Divergent. The idea itself is all wrong, so please just understand that they used the fence to allow the regular movie goer to create a better sense of the world they live in.
Some input: I think you compared the movie too much to the book. I too have read the book and I feel the same way you do, but maybe you could title this Divergent Book to Movie Adaptation. Because that's exactly what it is.
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