Director
Neil Burger
Leading Actors/Actresses
Shailene Woodley and Theo James
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Miles Teller, Kate Winslet, and Zoë Kravitz
Genre
Sci-Fi
Language
English
Awards
N/A
Date of Release
March 21st, 2014
Producer
Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, and Pouya Shahbazian
Setting and Context
Future Chicago
Narrator and Point of View
Told from Tris Prior's point of view
Tone and Mood
Futuristic, Fun, High-Energy, Daring, and Solemn
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: Tris Prior. Antagonist: Jeanie Matthews.
Major Conflict
Tris' inner struggle to accept herself and to survive in a world that despises - and wants to kill - Divergents.
Climax
When Dauntless raids Abnegation hoping to kill and/or enslave the Abnegation people
Foreshadowing
Tris' status as a Divergent is foreshadowed early on in the film.
Understatement
The danger that the tester takes in not reporting Tris is very understated.
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
N/A
Allusions
To the book series on which the film is based by Veronica Roth, The Birds (1963), Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Red Dawn (1984), the book 1984 itself, history, geography, and mythology.
Paradox
Tris does not succumb to the mind control device because she is Divergent, yet she is not discovered.
Parallelism
N/A
