I really hope they wouldn't make the Allegiant movie.
Don't get me wrong, I like Veronica Roth and I love this adaptation of Insurgent, more than the Divergent one. But the moment the credit title rolls, I knew, I knew that the adaptation has come to an end and another sequel might just as well ruin the whole adaptation. I have no idea how book series adaptation into movies work, but I guess you don't really have to make the WHOLE series a movie. Well, I really do hope so. And if people tell me that, it's not finished yet! We don't know how they will survive beyond the walls and what happened to Caleb and Peter and even Jeanine or Jack Kang! Newsflash:
There is a thing called an open ending.
No stories are obligated to give the audience a conclusion, unless, of course, you prefer children bedtime stories which require a moral conclusion because many adults think kids can't make up the conclusion themselves (which is so goddamn wrong) but anyway. I personally like an open ending as long as it wasn't forced and Insurgent was NOT forced at all. Allegiant will only feel like an added, probably unnecessary sequel.
So why there was an Allegiant book in the first place?
Simple. Because the Insurgent book left some holes that needed to be filled and that's where Allegiant book came from. But the movie, well, I've told you that. The movie didn't have any holes that need to be filled in. It was complete.
But let's talk about Insurgent movie now and this is a SPOILER AREA so if you haven't watch the movie I suggest you to SKIPSKIPSKIP the upcoming paragraph. Or not. I love spoilers.
Tris experiences PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after witnessing her own parents' death and killed her friend. Tris, Four, Peter, Caleb, and Marcus are in Amity now and Tris keeps dreaming of everyone eventually know about the murder and blame her and the guilt is weighing her down. But she needs to keep moving, right? Well, long story short, Peter betrayed them (wow, surprise, surprise!) and the three of them (Marcus was left in Amity) ran from the Dauntless, met the Factionless and met Evelyn Eaton. Oh my God she's still alive! But their 'hospitality' in the Factionless didn't last long. Four insisted that they need to find other Dauntless which just happened to be with Candor. Caleb said he will be more useful for the Abnegation and the three of them parted. The moment Four and Tris walked into Candor they are arrested. Four managed to make Kang, the leader of Candor, to held their trial with the truth serum in Candor's headquarter instead of handing them to Erudite. There, the truth spilled. Four said that he was controlled in a simulation, along with other Dauntless, to kill the Abnegation. Jeanine made him do so. But Tris was able to stop him. Tris revealed how Jeanine did the simulation and that she wasn't controlled because she's Divergent, but that doesn't mean she didn't hurt anybody. She witnessed her mother died, then her father, then she shot Will because he was under the simulation. "Thank you for your candor" echoed. That night, the Dauntless who took side with the Erudite attacked Candor, looking for any Divergent, but the mission that night failed. All the Dauntless who's on Tris and Four's side moved to the Factionless, where Jeanine used the bullets that were shot to everyone that was in Candor to control Christina, Hector (Lynn's brother), and Marlene to make the announcement: Hand Tris over, or they will all die. Marlene couldn't be saved. Tris eventually gave in and did as Jeanine told her to. It just happened that why Jeanine needed her was so that she could open the box that contained a message from their 'founders', but the box must be opened through all faction's simulation, thus only a Divergent can open it. Peter betrayed Erudite, saved Tris along with Four who came to Erudite to look after her, but Tris said they needed to open the box, and there's only one more simulation left: Amity's. Four and Peter (given no other choice) agreed to get Tris into the lab; Four guarded Tris and Peter messed with Erudite's security to allow them in. In the simulation, Tris learnt that Amity is about forgiving others and herself, so she forgave herself for killing Will, for keeping secrets from everyone, for disappointing her parents. The box unlocked, and the only reason Max and other Dauntless didn't kill her was because Jeanine, obsessed with the box, told them not to. The recorded message was a woman who says that their city was an experiment, and if there's Divergent among them who succeed on opening the box, congratulations. The experiment was nailed. Now, it's time for them to go beyond the walls of their city, living with other human. Jeanine was defeated when other Dauntless with the Factionless came and Four played the message in every city's monitor. The people were excited and together, they walked toward the city's wall. Credit title.
Phew! Wow! Welcome to the spoiler-free area! Thanks for staying with me. Let's talk about how awesome Insurgent was!
The actor and the actresses. Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller NAILED THEIR CHARACTERS. They were so awesome if none of them gets nominated I'd be so disappointed. Then other characters, too, are awesome, but I was amazed by Tris and Peter. The movie was pretty much different than the book but for the first time in probably forever, I think the movie was better than the book. No hard feelings, Veronica Roth. You're still awesome. Then there was the Factionless! Although.... they look more like Dauntless. Where was the mix of factions' clothes? Most of them only wear black and black and a bit of colour but that's it. Why Four needed so much time to finally tell the Factionless he's Tobias Eaton a bit confuses me, but I guess that's because he wanted to avoid his parents as much as possible. Then the simulations Tris went through! They all felt so real I was surprised how can one separates their reality from the simulation they were just in? I guess that's what makes me not a Divergent. I would say that the storyline in the movie was also a bit shorter than the book but I guess we're talking about duration here and nothing felt forced or left insatisfyingly unexplained. Everything was right in their own places and I really want to congratulate Tris for being honest and forgiving to herself even though she went through a really hard time to get there. It's never easy to forgive what we've done.
Congratulations and thank you to all the crew and actors and actresses who made the Insurgent movie possible, also thank you Veronica Roth for making the Divergent series. Ouch this feels like a goodbye. Don't worry, if they insisted on making the Allegiant move you guys will probably see me again next year rambling about it. But I stand my ground: please don't make another sequel. Insurgent is a perfect closure for Divergent.
Rating: 9/10.
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