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Divergent Series - Appreciate the out of faction

Divergent Series has 3 parts 1. Divergent 2. Insurgent 3. Allegent I started watching the first movie and continued to watch others after getting inspiration from the first movie. Mostly of the Hollywood success movies take very simple topics and takes us to unimaginable possibilities, so was divergent. The movies starts with separation of kids into factions - dauntless, Erudite, Candour, Amity and Abnegation similar to houses in a school or college. But they stand for the meaning of the titles they choose or else they have to become faction-less. This films portrays that such factions are higher than the family which seems weird and does not allows one to be part of values of all factions. Divergent are people who can portray all values of all factions, they are seen as a threat in this movie.  In the first part we could see how the protagonist, the lady character with the help of his coach passes all tests of dauntless and identifies that erudite are manipulating dauntless with c...

Films and their makings - my thoughts

I had been watching a lot of movies over the weekend, Divergent, Love Guru (Romeo), Shero (Lion) and more. The Divergent movie made me think how different the movies produced differs according to the part of the world they are being produced and directed. While western world makes simple topic complex and easter worlds make complex topic simple, this statement could be blunt, at least watching the famous movies makes me to think so. There are lot of movies made in Hollywood, which are very relevant to Americans but not to Indians. Watching different types of movies from different parts of the world may help us to understand the nature of the people over there and their circumstances. The need of a film or a movie The most needed film to watch for a person is a film which can light up or enlighten people to move higher in the pyramids of needs. It also seems so that the films made are based on the societal needs, community needs, regional needs and sometimes to throw back the history on...