Bella Thorne isn’t very into the idea of eternal life. “I think living forever is ridiculous. Who really wants to do that? Come on now,” she tells POPSUGAR. “That is just too much. You watch the world change, you watch the sh*t in the world get worse and worse and worse, and then it gets better, and then it’s worse again.” The cycles, she thinks, would get old after a while.
This viewpoint aligns with her character in “Divinity,” a surreal, sci-fi trip of a movie that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. In it, Thorne plays the closest thing to a god or holy spirit the movie offers. Shot entirely on black-and-white film, “Divinity” centers around a serum that can make people immortal — with some unexpected and gruesome consequences. But while most of the movie centers on the dangers of taking science too far, Thorne plays a leader in a group of ethereal women who seem to represent an alternative way of living.
Set in a starry desert where the sun never shines, “Divinity” is a warped, retro thriller that follows a man (Stephen Dorff) who has inherited the company that makes the serum from his father. Soon aliens enter the fold and force him to take the serum himself, and violence follows.
But now and then, Thorne and her group appear on the screen, providing much-needed guidance for the film’s few female characters. Thorne sees her role as the “good, divine feminine leader” of a group of “women that are going to help them and protect them,” she tells POPSUGAR. “I’m kind of their savior in that way — to lead them to a long life and teach them how to fight and how to protect themselves, and how to be safe, and how to stay alive.” In a world deadened by greed, her character symbolizes fertility and rebirth.
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