A Letter to the Director of Insurgent ;)

Dear Director of Insurgent,

You just had to take out all my favorite parts in the book and replace them with trite, mostly meaningless babble, didn't you?

I mean, Uriah doesn't talk to Tris on the rooftop, and Tris can initially fight off the truth serum and she chooses to confess that she killed Will.

You swapped Tris and Tobias' roles, too, because in the book Tris doesn't trust Evelyn, and Tobias does.

Peter is a sadistic psychopath who only saves Tris' life because he can't stand the thought of being indebted to a "Stiff".

And Caleb betrays his sister with no remorse at all, at least, not until well into the third book!

Plus, it's "thank you for your honesty", NOT "thank you for your candor". And yes, there is a difference. Plus, they whisper it.

You left out the part where Tobias beats Marcus with his belt, and the exchange between him and Tris where he throws down the gauntlet and tells her that he cannot love a Tris who insists upon destroying herself.

Whatever happened to the scene where Tris climbs to the top of the building and almost throws herself from it, because she can't handle the pain anymore?

Or the fact that she promises Tobias she won't sacrifice herself, and then does anyway?

I also don't understand why Tris and Tobias had to have implied sex! In the book, the whole point was that she wouldn't be with him that way if she was just using him to make her feel better, and that was beautiful and noble. You lost that in the movie.

And what on earth was that cube? That was nowhere in the book! The whole simulations thing was completely screwed up and inaccurate.

I mean, don't get me wrong.. I did love the movie, and the special effects were splendid! And I adored Tris because I could absolutely relate to her, what with the nightmares, and hurting the ones she cared the most about, and pretending to be brave when you're anything but!

By the same token, however, I sorely missed my favorite lines from the book, and how Tobias refuses to coddle her and insists that she is strong enough to live, and the way he tells her not to apologize when she says sorry for everything, and I guess I was just looking forward to something slightly more accurate to the book.

Therefore, I was disappointed, in comparison, because of the absolute failure to adhere to even the basic plot line of the book!

I do think it matters, and I adore the book so much that it saddened me how much was cut out.

You didn't completely screw everything up, but I will just have to think twice before reading a book just prior to watching the movie.

My mistake....but you made plenty too. ;)