ACROSS
1 Wife of 25-Down
5 Flipping burgers,
e.g.
10 Victorious shout
14 Sylvester’s
speech problem
15 Now, in Nuevo
León
16 Nixed, at NASA
17 Corrosive stuff
18 Be homesick (for)
19 Country legend
Tennessee 
Ernie __
20 Gradually
exhaust
22 Helpful staffers
23 Amiss
24 Nag
26 Embarrassing
slip-ups
29 Bottom-line red
ink
32 “That’s all she __”
33 Bear shelter
35 Infamous
vampire,
familiarly
36 One’s self
37 Salon task
40 Korean carmaker
41 Like Lady Godiva
on horseback
43 Author __
Stanley Gardner
44 Upright
46 Darkest lunar
phase
48 Some school
uniform parts
49 Salon task
50 Part of a
progression
51 Corned beef
solution
53 Ogden Nash
specialty, and a
hint to this
puzzle’s circles
57 Count for
something
58 Cooper of shock
rock
60 Pre-euro Italian
money
61 Sign of the future
62 German thanks
63 One of seven for
Julia Louis-
Dreyfus
64 Skin growth
65 Ice cream
helping
66 “Slammin’”
slugger Sammy

DOWN
1 Imperfection
2 Grain in some
cakes
3 Where billions
live
4 Rising air current
5 City VIPs
6 Like taffy
7 Cusack or
Crawford
8 Bobby of the
Bruins
9 Outlaw
10 Shortstop’s
realm
11 Furniture maker,
e.g.
12 “Puss in Boots”
baddie
13 Signaled yeses
21 Geeky type
22 Singer 
Garfunkel
24 Derogatory
25 Husband of 1-
Across
26 “Miracle on 34th
Street” actor
Edmund
27 Pick a fight (with)
28 Restaurant
reviewer
30 Superdome
NFLer
31 Tons

33 “SNL” producer
Michaels
34 Piercing tool
38 13 popes
39 Teamed, as oxen
42 Highly respected
45 Baby bottle parts
47 __-man band
48 Meryl of “The
Iron Lady”
50 Great, in show
biz
51 It may be
furrowed

52 “__ Lama Ding
Dong”: doo-wop
hit
53 Sot
54 Wheels for the
well-heeled
55 Akimbo limbs
56 “Divine Secrets
of the __
Sisterhood”
58 Magazine 
fillers
59 Fond du __,
Wisconsin

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03/22/16

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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

‘Allegiant’ destroys 
the young adult genre

By NOAH COHEN

Daily Arts Writer

The moral universe of “Alle-

giant” is insane. The film picks 
up where “Insurgent” left off. 
The “Faction-
less,” led by 
Four’s 
(Theo 

James, 
“You 

Will 
Meet 

a Tall Dark 
Stranger”) 
estranged 
mom 
Evelyn 

(Naomi Watts, 

“While We’re Young”) have 
miraculously succeeded in their 
rebellion against the powerful 
technology-wielding 
central 

government of post-apocalyp-
tic Chicago (yes, the Divergent 
series is set in Chicago). But 
Tris (Shailene Woodley, “The 
Fault in Our Stars”) believes 
there’s humanity outside the 
walls of the city, on the word 
of her martyred mother. So 
far, things make sense. Now 
that the power-hungry psy-
chos have been deposed, we’re 
going to install a central gov-
ernment that doesn’t divide 
people based on categories so 
lurid and inane they could only 
come from a childish dystopian 
thriller, right? And next, we’ll 
send a small envoy outside the 
wall, because blindly remain-
ing inside a city and forbidding 
everyone to leave for no appar-
ent reason is crazy, right?

Whatever. The trials for the 

dethroned 
Chicago 
govern-

ment thugs begin. The trials 
turn into executions. The Fac-
tionless have done away with 
the defunct Faction system of 
government, and without neat 
little categories, Chicago has 
fallen under mob rule. Johan-
na (“Octavia Spencer, “Snow-
piercer”), former leader of the 
“Amity” faction (read: the obvi-
ous good guys), sees everything 
going to hell and wants to rein-
state the Factions so people stop 
killing each other. She takes 
charge of the dissenters and 
names them the “Allegiant,” as 
in, allegiant to the old system 
of government. So now, Evelyn 
and Johanna sit down at a table 
with a handful of their top advi-
sors, including Tris, de-facto 
leader of the former “Daunt-
less” — despite being cute, 
sixteen and apparently well-
shampooed — and they all dis-
cuss how they can preserve the 
infrastructure, prosperity and 
humanity of their tiny nation, 
right? Instead, they all pull 
out guns. Including the former 
members of Amity.

Tris, our hero, cares deeply 

about the people of Chicago. So 
she speaks up and tells every-
one they’re being stupid, right? 
She tells her boyfriend’s mom 
that violence isn’t cool, right? 
Nah, she’s out. She escapes the 
walls of Chicago with Four, her 
brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort, 
“The Fault in Our Stars”) and 
a couple other eye-candy party 
members. They’re greeted out-
side by the Real Government, 
who tell us that Chicago is a 
big genetic experiment and 
that everyone in dystopian Chi-
cago is merely a specimen in 
a hyper-sophisticated breed-
ing terrarium overseen by the 
Bureau. 
Apparently, 
human 

genetic modification caused a 
nuclear apocalypse and Chi-
cago is an attempt to get the 
human genome to revert to an 
au naturel state. A minute of 
nonsensical scientific justifica-
tion later and we’re mostly cool 
with this status quo. David (Jeff 
Daniels, “The Newsroom”), the 
head of the Bureau, tells Tris 
that the “Divergent” (i.e. her-
self) are everything the experi-
ment has been looking for. Tris 

is upset that everyone she’s ever 
known is currently killing each 
other, and asks David to inter-
vene in the experiment. David, 
the biggest liar who’s ever lied, 
says, sure, honey, just come with 
me and I’ll talk to the Council, 
who are the Real Bosses.

Meanwhile, the Bureau has 

Four suited up, skimming the 
post-apocalyptic 
hellscape 

for settlements. He descends 
upon one with a hundred other 
Bureau meatheads and witness-
es the Bureau taking children 
back to its not-irradiated tech 
castle. They leave the parents 
of the kids to die out there, or 
in some cases, shoot the parents 
themselves. Then they wipe 
the kids’ memories. They seem 
to have the technology to com-
pletely de-irradiate people, but 
they rip the families apart any-
way. No explanation. This isn’t 
one of those moral cliffhangers 
that turns out to have a twisty-
but-reasonable explanation. It’s 
just insane. They fly around 
saving starving, irradiated kids 
whose families have no weap-
ons that could possibly pierce 
their personal force fields, and 
yet they tote giant guns and 
screw the parents for no iden-
tifiable reason. This is top-shelf 
nonsense.

So Tris goes to the Council, 

finds out that David is a liar, and 
hightails it back to Chicago to 
save her people. Four has already 
tried this, but he was remarkably 
ineffective, so his rebel-turned-
dictator mom locked him up and 
now Tris has to save him in addi-
tion to stopping the war. Only 
now, David wants to mass-wipe 
the memories of everyone in 
Chicago with the same memory-
wipe gas he’s been using on the 
settlement children. Why is he 
suddenly cool with intervening 
in his own experiment to save 
lives? No idea, but if there were 
ever a good reason to mind-con-
trol an entire city, it would be 
to stop ongoing genocide. Tris 
isn’t cool with this, however. 
She saves Four and they blow up 
the gas machine. The kids save 
the day, except for that geno-
cidal war that’s still going on. 
But we’ll get to that in the next 
movie.

The last moral lesson in 

this movie is that violence 
solves problems and nuclear 
unmanned drones are an awe-
some idea. Tris’s crew puts a 
bomb in an unmanned craft, 
sets it on autopilot and sends 
it back to the Bureau. The last 
scene in the movie is the crown 
jewel of unintentional Holly-
wood irony. Tris and her homies 
watch their drone-nuke blast 
the Bureau to smithereens from 
the edge of Chicago, while Tris’s 
overdubbed voice explains the 
importance of working together 
and eschewing constructs that 
divide and hurt people.

I mostly blame the main 

writer, Noah Oppenheim (“The 
Maze Runner”), but frankly, no 
one involved with this movie 
has any excuse. This whole fran-
chise is The Hunger Games on a 
bad acid trip. My IQ has dropped 
twenty points and my soul needs 
a shower. Let Chicago burn. I’m 
done.

SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

So ~this~ is the secret life of the American teenager.

FILM REVIEW
FILM REVIEW
‘Home’ depicts a 
somber New York

Re-release of 1977 
experimental film 

shows a cold Big Apple

By DANIEL HENSEL

Daily Arts Writer

1977 was New York’s year in 

film. Between “Annie Hall” and 
“New York, New York,” cinema’s 
two unabashed 
New 
York-

lovers, 
Woody 

Allen 
and 

Martin 
Scors-

ese, 
released 

their love let-
ters to the city. 
That 
same 

year, 
Belgian 

experimen-
tal 
filmmaker 

Chantal Aker-
man (“Jeanne Dielman”) released 
her ode to the city: “News from 
Home,” shown on Wednesday at 
the Ann Arbor Film Festival in a 
new 16 mm print that was mak-
ing its American debut. “News 
from Home,” simply enough, is 
85 minutes of Akerman reading 
aloud letters sent to her from her 
mother when she lived in New 
York in the early 1970s. Essential-
ly, we read what she was reading. 
And we see what she was seeing, 
too. Each shot is a meticulously 
crafted slice of New York life.

Akerman’s New York is far 

from idyllic. Rather, it’s cold and 
empty. Its residents seem unwel-
coming and always on the move. 

Akerman was all of 21 when she 
moved by herself from Belgium 
to New York. For a young woman 
alone in its streets, the expanse of 
New York is at once captivating 
and terrifying. Akerman refuses 
to romanticize. She is document-
ing. From the first shot of the film, 
a narrow corridor, only slightly 
wider than an alleyway, with an 
occasional pedestrian or car pass-
ing, it’s clear that Akerman wasn’t 
living as a tourist in the city. She 
was, instead, a quiet resident, 
observing the character and char-
acters of the “real” New York. At 
times dark and eerie, and at times 
whimsical, Akerman shows us the 
daytime (and occasional night-
time) New York of Sidney Lumet 
and Woody Allen, Martin Scors-
ese and Spike Lee.

The letters from Akerman’s 

mother are our only characters. 
Each letter reprimands Chantal 
for not immediately responding, 
describes some bit of minutiae 
in the older Akerman’s every-
day life, or requests that Chantal 
spend some of the money she has 
sent. Time seems to slow as the 
film progresses, with the space 
between each letter widening and 
widening. Towards the beginning, 
the letters come frequently, and 
her mother’s nagging is, frankly, 
annoying. And yet, as time passes, 
we begin to miss the letters. The 
New York scenes can grow repeti-
tive, or even mind-numbingly 
boring, that we begin to cling to 
something new. For a later por-
tion of the film, in which Aker-
man is driving along the coast of 

Manhattan, looking inward to 
the city, seconds, minutes, hours 
seem to pass until when we next 
hear from the mother. Perhaps, 
for Akerman, the thrill of inde-
pendence died after a few weeks 
or months, and the painstaking 
ache for contact from loved ones 
grew and grew.

To the extent of determining 

whether the film captures Aker-
man’s experience in New York 
from 1971 to 1972, “News from 
Home” is impossible to judge. The 
film is miniscule in its aim — to 
capture one person’s emotions 
and city experiences over the 
course of year — yet could stand in 
to represent the New York immi-
grant artist experience of the 
1970s, or perhaps even the entire 
immigrant experience. And yet, it 
never seems like a complete depic-
tion of her time there. Where does 
she live? What does she do daily? 
How do people treat her?

In the film, everyone is going 

somewhere — walking, driving 
and riding the subway. We rarely 
see a destination, a place where 
people have arrived. Even Times 
Square — the ultimate New York 
tourist spectacle — is reduced to 
its corresponding subway stop. 
Perhaps this is how Akerman 
perceived the New York experi-
ence — always on the move, never 
stopping at a destination, only 
endless ambition. Whether that 
determination is to be respected 
or detested is never addressed. 
The experience is left up to end-
less interpretation, but only Aker-
man knows the answers.

A-

News from 
Home

Ann Arbor 
Film Festival

Michigan Theater

F

Allegiant

Summit Enter-
tainment

Rave & Quality 16

