Divergent… the movie

In a futuristic Chicago, society is divided into five factions based on personality type, created to bring everlasting peace.
  On a given day each year, all sixteen year olds must take a test and choose where they belong. For Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) the choice is not an easy one. In a divided existence where everyone must conform, Tris is DIVERGENT – a danger and threat to this seemingly perfect world.
  Forced to hide this deadly secret, she has to make a difficult choice and is drawn to her enigmatic mentor, Four (Theo James), who appears to both threaten and protect her. 
As a dangerous conflict develops amongst the factions, she must rely on her strength and courage not only to survive, but to save the people she loves.

( Dictionary definition:  Divergent: the inability to fit into a box…)
The film Divergent is about a future society, who, having almost destroyed their planet, have decided the only way to control the peace is to segregate people according to their types. Something many politicians today would love to do!
Seeing all these different factions in the film, the peaceful, the thinkers, and the ones who think they are superior to all the others, it was hard to visualise how they thought this system would work.
The leaders of this imaginary world were becoming concerned about the increasing number of people who didn’t conform to the segregation, not fitting into any particular faction. They called them divergent, their word for troublemakers, and decided they would all have to be eliminated to maintain the peace.
This was when the plot started to crumble for me, for it simply wasn’t logical to kill all the divergents just because of their differences. For surely, these special people are the very ones who would come up with brilliant discoveries?
This made me think of our own society and how we are all so different or divergent if you like. It is true that some people will fall into specific groups and are happy to remain there. But what of all the leaders and innovators, all those fascinating people whose minds will change the world?
We need more people like this to invent new medicines, solve world problems and make the world a better place for the rest of us. It might not be as peaceful as we would like, but think of the advantages…