The other day, I have a pleasure meeting my old pal who happens to love movies. She’s always been enjoy movie franchises, like X-Men, Hunger Games and Divergent. She’s always have been a pretty detailed and analytical one, especially about movie characters and their background, and even hidden meaning of a story. We were both two busy women who loves movies and excited to have one moment to finally see one sequel of franchise.
One year before, I got to know about Tris (Shailene Woodley) and her ‘Divergent’ gene in Divergent (2014) movie. A person which have two or more fraction (class in the society) is feared and considered a threat because they don’t know what they are capable of. Even when Tris has able to pick a fraction of her own will (Dauntless) and have to be apart from her parents in Abnegation, she still lives in fear since her ‘Divergent’ gift can be discovered anytime.
One interesting point about Tris is her combination of pureness, honesty, modest and smart brain. Combined with Woodley’s sweet nature and big eyes, one can’t really justified her as a danger or deadly one. Maybe that’s why her Dauntless trainer, Four (Theo James) couldn’t help but wanting to protect her and later involve deeper feelings together. Four helps protecting her in Insurgent (2015), though the road is full of danger.
When Tris met her fellow Dauntless, she couldn’t confess that she killed her Dauntless friend, Will and boyfriend of Christina (Zoe Kravitz), her best friend. But she couldn’t say no when she had to confess, which means letting everyone to know about the secret. Behind her calm exterior, though gets doubtful facing all her life troubles, the reality is that she never really let it go. It was then we know that Tris herself can’t digest that fact and she haven’t been able to forgive herself.
Later, all of the chases, fights and tests, and survival acts only lead to one thing : she should forgive herself.
Image from Divergent (2014)
It’s funny how sometimes we forget that all the complications in life can be solved through ourselves. One thing happen so fast and we do things we wish we shouldn’t do, but time won’t stop to make us heal. But sometimes we neglect or avoid dealing with one traumatic thing in the past, because it’s unpleasant. It’s important to sort things out, before life goes any further.
Seeing Tris and the movie, I can see a lot of obstacles from within need to be push through. Maybe that is the big idea of Divergent and its franchise, to set young minds to develop their passion and talents while push fears and obstacles within. Also showing that each of our step have consequences, and every fraction have their plus and minuses.
SPOILER ALERT (Read at your own risk)
Eric (Jai Courtney), one Dauntless leader said to be much more begging in the novel before Four killed him. My friend told me that his mean and unforgiving characteristic grow because he hates how Four always beat him being Dauntless leader. It’s things like this that shows how we sometimes complicate situations ourselves. How our selfish thoughts in the end hurting others.
In the last test, Tris shockingly faced by her own ‘devil’ side and it’s what she fear from herself within. Whoa, this franchise is more deeper than I thought it would be. Don’t you think in each of us there’s always the bad side? And have you ever know the wisdom words, ‘We either let our good wolf and bad wolf inside of us win.’ Though for more depth, there should be more layers of how Tris deal with her pain (maybe there was just not enough time to add that in the movie) before she actually can forgive herself, the movie does have great sense on how we should set ourselves free and sometimes that is the only answer.
S p o i l e r E n d s
My friend said, Tris doesn’t have any clear background on why she’s tough in the present. It seems that she’s strong because she was born to be like that. I’m afraid that it could influence young mindset that you can’t do much if you don’t have the gene. I don’t read the novel, so I don’t know if it’s more detailed in it. But I do like how Tris solved her problems sure but calm, smart and intuitive. More importantly, step forward to make better you.
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Thanks for reading this reflection plus half-review post of Insurgent (2015).
