Not purposefully meaning to play on this pun bringing to mind the old James Dean film, but somehow this seemed most apt for a title to the description of the film Insurgent.
As a sequel to Divergent it keeps up both the quality and the pace in the story but what I found most intriguing about the sequel was that behind the racy action scenes, high jumps, low blows and edge of your seat sequences there was actually a message within a message.
The obvious one of course is that social segregation is created by powerful leaders in order to selfishly maintain their own positions but there was a very subtle underlying message too which for me was even more powerful; it is that each individual with the right amount of courage and heart is capable of changing a mountain of events and bringing worlds that seem very much apart together.
There is of course in the movie the feminist angle of the hero being a woman, the man being supportive and loving yet strong and active. This is an Oppressive City genre of film where the hero has to overthrow the unfair social and political system.
It also lays before us the very raw issues of psychological distinctions in people i.e: each person leans more towards a certain type of behaviour or emotion in their genetic and social set up or setting but that these diverse psychological personality traits in a very select few are equally present in the psyche, creating a perfect balance between mind, spirit and body.
This film is indeed full of substantial insights into human nature and its many faces but within all of this content the very subtle beautiful message is that if one or a few of us are able to balance or join all these facets of humanity in one then we are able to bring together worlds that are apart, unite different realms of existence and somehow create a new world which is liberated and all encompassing.
It reminds me funnily enough of a dream I once had of creating a substance or object from a stone and a peach, two very different substances somehow creating a third which makes no sense on the surface to the naked eye but which in fact is a symbol of unity between two very different worlds, so a reality which is in fact much more than the sum of its parts.
Its not a just stone peach (soft and hard, fruitful sweet and at the same time unmovable or solid; it is a new and wonderful thing, newly imagined and yet to be discovered.
This is the essence of creation and Art or of musical composition; it's the genius in extreme combinations and of having the courage to dream.
Its not just the hero fighting to free the different factions or to bring together the different political and social groups (Hunger Games), it is an extraordinary individual having the vision to see something completely new, born of very different elements.
Find your Peaches and Stones and don't be afraid to imagine a way to 'glue' them together..
Randa
As a sequel to Divergent it keeps up both the quality and the pace in the story but what I found most intriguing about the sequel was that behind the racy action scenes, high jumps, low blows and edge of your seat sequences there was actually a message within a message.
The obvious one of course is that social segregation is created by powerful leaders in order to selfishly maintain their own positions but there was a very subtle underlying message too which for me was even more powerful; it is that each individual with the right amount of courage and heart is capable of changing a mountain of events and bringing worlds that seem very much apart together.
There is of course in the movie the feminist angle of the hero being a woman, the man being supportive and loving yet strong and active. This is an Oppressive City genre of film where the hero has to overthrow the unfair social and political system.
It also lays before us the very raw issues of psychological distinctions in people i.e: each person leans more towards a certain type of behaviour or emotion in their genetic and social set up or setting but that these diverse psychological personality traits in a very select few are equally present in the psyche, creating a perfect balance between mind, spirit and body.
This film is indeed full of substantial insights into human nature and its many faces but within all of this content the very subtle beautiful message is that if one or a few of us are able to balance or join all these facets of humanity in one then we are able to bring together worlds that are apart, unite different realms of existence and somehow create a new world which is liberated and all encompassing.
It reminds me funnily enough of a dream I once had of creating a substance or object from a stone and a peach, two very different substances somehow creating a third which makes no sense on the surface to the naked eye but which in fact is a symbol of unity between two very different worlds, so a reality which is in fact much more than the sum of its parts.
Its not a just stone peach (soft and hard, fruitful sweet and at the same time unmovable or solid; it is a new and wonderful thing, newly imagined and yet to be discovered.
This is the essence of creation and Art or of musical composition; it's the genius in extreme combinations and of having the courage to dream.
Its not just the hero fighting to free the different factions or to bring together the different political and social groups (Hunger Games), it is an extraordinary individual having the vision to see something completely new, born of very different elements.
Find your Peaches and Stones and don't be afraid to imagine a way to 'glue' them together..
Randa
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