Cost: $5.00
Where watched: St. Johns Cinema
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2014/divergent_ver8.html
*Still looking at you, Gone Baby Gone.
But let's discuss for a moment what they did, because I found it pretty egregious. Not once did they show Triss winning a fight, which she does a few times in the book.** Also, in the book, she was ranked first in the Dauntless initiates. FIRST! It was a big deal, because ranking first is important, but also because her male counterpart, Four, had also ranked first when he went through training. This was not mentioned at all in the movie, which I found particularly telling. Furthermore, in the book, one of the fears that Triss must overcome in her thought landscape, is having sex with Four, knowing he only wants her for her body. In the movie, they turned this into a quasi-rape scene which is not at all the same thing. But why show some nuance in the female psyche, when you can head right back over to that reliable rape thing? It makes me want to spit.
**This is annoying because she spends the second book in the traditional female role of having the men take care of her, which means that we never got to see her kick ass on screen.
ps. Oh hell, let's just add in the poster of Mr. Pamuk, while we are at it.
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2014/divergent_ver2.html
I am home sick today. That is why. In case you were wondering.
ReplyDeleteHey my other comment disappeared. That is lame. It spoke of Mr. Pamuk and my EW magazine.
ReplyDeleteMy sick comment makes more sense if my other Pamuky comment is first. The gist: I had no idea that he was one in the same until EW told me. Also I queried as to the oddness of me having not actually read this book and thus not actually seeing this movie.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been interested in this book/movie series, although the fact that Shailene Woodley stars piqued my interest (loved her in The Spectacular Now). I'll probably give it a pass. Nearly every time I read your reviews, it reminds me why I sort of prefer to watch TV/movies without any female characters at all, because virtually no one seems to know how to write for women.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes feel the same way. I think a result of the oppressed minority thing. Like it's mostly guys who write women, because it's mostly guys who are in film. But even when women write women, it sometimes isn't so great. But maybe that's because we don't get to filter our story through our female filter, they have to go through the male filter. Do you notice that women are written differently in books, which is an industry that is much more open to women than TV/movies? It's a conundrum.
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