hello everybody it's David Claussen with English - quickly.com
and today we will learn about the number one movie
in the United States called divergent and divergent is an adjective
and it means to be different or develop in different directions some synonyms are different or dissimilar
unalike and the movie made 54,607,000
$747 so far
and here is the poster for the movie
and a female star on the movie is Shailene Woodley and the other star is Theo James it's a science fiction
action film which is based on a novel or a book by Veronica Roth and here is the cover of the book
which is the same name of divergent which was published on April 25, 2011 so it was a very
popular book that was made into a movie
and the setting takes place in the city of Chicago, Chicago is one of the biggest cities in the United States in the state of Illinois
and here are some pictures of Chicago to give you an idea of what it looks like
and the plot or what the movie is about
is
five factions in a dystopia and dystopia is when you have a city or a society
where things are very
bad or gloomy so dystopia is a bad society
the opposite is utopia
utopia is where everything is perfect or great
in the movie you have dystopian Chicago where things are very bad
and everything is divided into five factions or parts
you have a selfless
part where people do things to help others
you have a peaceful
part where everybody is nice
you have a truthful part where everything
everybody tells the truth or says what's correct an intelligent or smart
and the fifth one is brave
these are people that are strong or brave like in the military
well the main actress named Beatrice is told that she has several of these
traits or she's in several different factions
and this society says she's a threat
she is divergent she is
different
than everybody else and they don't
like that's kind of the basic plot
or the beginning middle and end of the movie the running time
of the movie is 139 minutes
the budget or how much they spent is $85,000,000 on the movie and it was released in
the United States on March 21, 2014 so that's our English lesson for today
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