Just stumbled across this series when my kids picked movie night this weekend.
Anyone seen this before? Lots of hidden symbolism. Briefly, it’s about how society collapsed due to a huge war possibly ww3. The survivors built a wall and fenced in society. People were divided into 5 “classes” or “caste” one of which was the “erudite” whose symbol was of course the all seeing eye. They want to take control, of course. And they inject this serum into the “military/LEO class” and they become brainwashed drones. The “divergent” are the free thinkers that think differently and see reality differently. And they are being actively hunted and exterminated bc the erudites are afraid of them.
Throughout the movie, people are “trained” using drugs. And the trainers can see what the people are thinking in their minds through monitors and chips.
Anyways, it’s far from a cinematic breakthrough but I thought the movie premis intriguing esp with the vaccine push and these people seemingly unable to wake up from the brainwashing. Bears some semblance to our reality. There’s two other movies in the series which I haven’t t gotten to yet
I watched them all. Watch the other 2 movies. At one point they escape the wall and find another group with higher technology who has been watching and tracking the whole city as an experiment. So much symbolism.
If you get a chance watch the maze runner series too
Dude…the vaccines and then they talked about genetic modification and wiping the memory…very very interdasting
Weren’t they also experimenting on the kids in the second movie? Hanging them up with all those tubes running. What were they taking from the kids bodies? Crazy it’s all right there in our face
And the surveillance technology. The people outside the fence were basically kidnapping kids and killing their parents so they can “save”/ create a generation of brainwashed kids and or get human experiment test subjects.