I suppose I'll get hate mail for this. Oh well. Just think of this post as merely a not very good matter of opinion form a very reliable scientific source.
I watched two movies last year that were very similar in very different ways. The Lego Movie and Divergent. And when I say Divergent, I'm adding the sequel, Insurgent too.
The Lego Movie is about a not-very-special Lego construction man who lives in an organized city. The world was over run by the evil Lord Business, who separated everyone in to certain groups and is trying to freeze the world and destroy all master builders.
Divergent is about a lot-very-special girl who lives in an organized city. The world was over run by the evil Whats-Her-Face, who has separated the everyone into certain groups and is trying to destroy all the divergents.
In the Lego Movie, Emit finds out that he's
the special and also a master builder. He meets many friends, and undergoes a complicated but absolutely adorable romance. He is in love with Wild Style, but she is dating Batman.
In Divergent, Tris finds out that she's
the special because she's a divergent. She meets many friends, and undergoes a romance.....Nothing complicated. Not adorable. Although, I fast forwarded most of the romance scenes in the movie any way.
In the Lego Movie, Emit is captured by the evil Lord Business, and his mentor dies. It is then that Emit realizes he's not actually the special. He's just a normal un-special guy.
In Divergent, Tris is captured and her mentor doesn't die because she doesn't have a mentor. She's still special, although she doesn't think she's special because she's special, or different, just like all the other different special people. But apparently even more special then them because she's the one the evil Whats-Her-Face wants her evil experiment. So she feels un-special because she's too special....
In the Lego Movie, Emit still know's he's not the chosen
special, but that's okay. He saves the world, along with all the other non-special people like him self. He realizes that everyone is special, and we can all make changes in the world. "Because you are the special," He says to President Business. The world is restored.
In Divergent, Tris realizes she's the most special epic person in the world, so her self confidence is restored. Yay. She tell the evil What's-Her-Face, "We're not the problem, we're the solution!" So the world is sort-of restored, and Tris learned a valuable lesson: that she's better then everyone.
These movies you might find very different at first, but the stories are almost the same. Only in the Lego movie, I felt good about my self at the end. In Divergent, I felt very un-special and decided if I lived in that world then I would probably be put in the hippy asylum and bake bread the rest of life. Because no one's as good as Tris.
I thought the characters in the Lego movie were real even though they were plastic.
But the characters in Divergent were very fake to me. They were just too perfect. Don't get me too wrong, there were some parts in Divergent I liked. I liked the music.
If I had too chose between these two movies to tell you that you were special, I would give you the Lego Movie
in a heart beet.
But this is just my opinion on the the matter. Divergent might have deep meaning that I just missed some how, and I don't remember much of the one time I did watch the movies, and I've never read the books. I'm definitely not an expert on this.
