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In support for Manresa 1987's Stand Up For Life (Taken during our pre movie dinner at Santouka Hokkaido Ramen, ATC) Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known in order to find a peaceful solution for their embroiled city. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to make impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love . -WWW I'm a Veronica Roth fan and I am currently reading the life of FOUR before he met Tris so I was really into the Divergent series.  I could relate to every battle(internal and external) and I could empathize and/or sympathize with every character and situation. Not all the cri...

Should we jump for joy because this movie was shown two days and a few hours ahead of the US of A?  I remember a certain Super Mall's members of its staff telling me that I could not buy tickets for a festival that they were partners with because this Blockbuster of a film was going to be shown ahead of time around the time the festival was going to start.  Hmm...  Where were the long queues they were anticipating? Where?  Wait a moment.  Am I grumbling? Didn't I like this movie?  Well, I did.  I liked Divergent better, but I liked this one too.  To be at peace with oneself, you should also learn to forgive yourself when needed be.    I am not going to give a long narrative on my thoughts about this film.  All I would like to say is that I like the flow of the story, the special effects and all the actors(including the ones with bit roles). It's not a great film and I don't love it, but I definitely like it.  ...

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."- Cassius Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141) -William Shakespeare John Green, a genius of an author, played with the quote above. If Cassius didn't believe that things happen for a reason , John Green surely does. The story of Hazel Grace and Augustus is beautiful.  Their infinity might be smaller than others, but their love for each other is probably wider than the ocean and deeper than sea. Shailene Woodley is a natural and I can say the same for the charming Answel Elgort.  In the DIVERGENT Trilogy, they play brother and sister, but here, they are star-crossed lovers. Both roles are very convincing.  I must say that I could give them both standing ovations. I can see and feel the chemistry between them.  I would have wished that this was a happier story, but no matter how sad this story is, Augustus fear of oblivion will never happen, unless the Seco...

Thankfully, in my opinion, this is 3/4 faithful to the book.  Almost everything that happened in the movie is how I imagined it to be.  Sure, there were some changes for cinematic purposes, but some of them were forgivable. Shailene Woodley, nowadays, looks more glamorous and beautiful, but here, since she plays sixteen-year-old Tris, she looks a little bit plainer than usual, so she was overshadowed, at least physically, by the handsome Theo James. Some people were comparing this to THE HUNGER GAMES, but I believe that the only thing similar about them is their being dystopic and post-apocalyptic. Other than that, the stories and the twists are totally different.   If people were to ask me what story I like better, I would choose Veronica Roth's trilogy over Suzanne Collins' best sellers, even if I like both sets. Zip-lining at Jimmy Kimmel's Show Oh how I want to be in Tris' place(haha!) Theo James and Shailene Woodley have...