Another week … another new YA bestseller-franchise in the Hogwarts-Hunger-Ender's-Game mould. Divergent is based on the 2011 novel by Veronica Roth, the first of a trilogy. Shailene Woodley (who was George Clooney's daughter in Alexander Payne's The Descendants)plays Tris, the lonely teen in a scary, ruined futureworld where Chicago is a fortified city-state, surrounded by high walls beyond which is mere anarchy. People in this totalitarian society have to join one of five factions, Abnegation, the pious; Erudite(here apparently pronounced "error — yew — dite"), the intelligentsia; Amity, the peaceful; Candor, the honest, and Dauntless, the brave. This last group is a bunch of supercool black-clad badasses with no small opinion of themselves; tasked with policing the city, they run around the place like Parkour enthusiasts on PCP.Tris is expected to join the humble Abnegation group like her mum and dad but rebels and joins Dauntless, and undergoes its unisex training programme. But there is, of course, a hint that she can't fit into any category, she is a "divergent", that kind of uncategorisable lifeforce that the sinister authorities want to crush. Kate Winslet plays the icily menacing Jeanine, the leader of Erudite, that thoroughly suspect faction of creepy brainiacs who appear to show that intellectuals are creepy and not to be trusted, compared to the brave or the pious. What a conformist message.