Conflict

A movie where conflict was present in every scene was Divergent. The book author, Veronica Roth, and Film director, Neil Burger, did an amazing job in making sure we never forgot the conflict throughout the story. The main character, Beatrice Prior (later on known as Tris) lives in Chicago 100 years into the future and within her society, when a teen turns 16, they have to take an aptitude test determining what faction they'll end up in. There are five factions: Candor (the honest people who serve for the city's court; see the world as black and white; the truth and the lie), Erudite (the intelligent people who work in the research center in the city, they are the ones who developed the aptitude test), Amity (the peaceful "hippies" of the society that are 100% organic and are in charge of the city's agriculture and source of food supplies), Abnegation (the selfless and the less vain of the factions; help out the "factionless" who are the homeless of their city; Abnegation volunteers and don't get paid because it's free services they give; they run the government; Tris is originally from this faction), and lastly Dauntless (the soldiers of the city; their the brave ones who protect the city from any dangers; Tris later on chooses Dauntless as her chosen faction even though she had three factions to choose from). Since Tris got three factions to choose from from her aptitude test, she is Divergent, and Divergents don't stand a chance in this dystopian society as they poise a threat to the leaders that want to control every single person in Tris' society. Since she chose Dauntless, she has to hide herself really well because if they catch her doing really good in her 2nd and 3rd stage of training to become dauntless, they'll kill her. See, once she got into Dauntless headquarters, Eric (one of the Dauntless leaders) told the newbies that since they got to choose their faction, the Dauntless leaders will take up the task in choosing who will be eligible to join Dauntless. If she does too bad, she'll become factionless, but if she does really good, she'll stand out and the Dauntless leaders will take an interest in her. The 1st stage is the physical training where she will exercise her physical capabilities to the maximum, and gain strength along the way. Tris is a skinny girl, so she has trouble keeping up, but when it comes to the 2nd and 3rd stage, which is the mental training, she aces the tests like it was a piece of cake. The mind simulations she goes under depict her deep fears and make them a reality. Since she is divergent, when she is under the simulation, she knows it's all fake, she can control her fears and find loopholes. Those who aren't divergent are tricked and think everything there is 100% real, which affects them when the simulation is all over. In addition, since she can manipulate the simulation, she can get out of it much faster than all the others can. Each person is timed and the less time they spend in the simulation, the better, but Tris' time is ridiculously unbelievable for a newbie. Her status as a divergent is enough to make her die, but it gives her an advantage to mind control, which the leaders of the society use later on to overcome the people of the city.

In my real life, conflict has presented itself way too many times. My birthday was this past Friday and so my friend (a week before) was like "I'm going to go take you out to eat and then after we're going over to my house because I have a surprise for you so don't make plans." I was like "OMG! Okay!! The day of my birthday she's like "Oh dude, I can't go out anymore I got in trouble because (inserts reason here)." I didn't take it lightly because I mean, HELLO!! It's my birthday and you're over here telling me you can't go out anymore, when I basically cancelled on everyone else because you said you were going to take me out? Like that was what was going through my mind. It was really rude, and not to mention I was feeling so struck. Like is one of my closest friends really bailing on me for my birthday? Like what what kind of friend is that? That's unacceptable. I told her straight up like "Okay whatever I'm butthurt and a little upset." She responded with "Oh my god, really?" Her tone had a hint of annoyance and I was just so done with it all. At the end, my other good friend took me out to eat and I had a fun time. My friend that "planned" the day and I haven't talked since Friday and I'm okay with that.

A good way to incorporate this into a quick film would be getting the main scene to be the part where she told me she couldn't take me out anymore. Having the quick film be based around the whole dramatic scene will show off the anger and the lack of joyfulness to the whole quick film. It'll be a scene where the audience will be like "Oh my god, is she serious?" and that's what I'm looking for.