The Divergent Series: Insurgent

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The Divergent Series: Insurgent is the second of four films in the series adapted from Veronica Roth’s young adult novels. Robert Schwentke (Red, R.I.P.D.) replaces the previous film’s director, Neil Burger, and inherits much of the same cast including Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Octavia Spencer, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Naomi Watts, and Kate Winslet.

After being exposed as Divergents—people who don’t fit neatly into one of the five societal classifications or “factions”—Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) find themselves on the run from Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the power-hungry leader of the Erudite faction. As the traitorous Dauntless troops under Jeanine’s command prowl the ruins of dystopian Chicago rounding up Divergents, Tris and Four traverse the city hoping to find allies among the Amity, Candor, Abnegation and Dauntless factions—as well as the rebellious and impoverished mass of Factionless.

The first-person viewpoint Roth used in Divergent led the filmmakers to create a closed in movie, but the world opens up in the sequel. “It’s a little bit like growing up,” she says. “When you’re a child, the world is very small, and when we get older, we realize how large the world really is. Insurgent is the world getting a little bit bigger and Tris is experiencing that in a very literal way … first it’s one faction, then it’s two factions, then it’s the entire city of Chicago.”

The Divergent Series: Insurgent is rated PG.