Divergent

I sent a long email to my friend Cameron about this when I saw the movie version of the book Divergent.

I read Divergent this summer and immediately had to go out and get the second and then wait for the third book in the series.

I devoured these books, fell in love with Tris and Tobias and felt like I knew them.

At the end of the third book I cried like when my mother died.  I cried not because of my loss but because of Tobias's loss.  The flashback he has to her falling into the net that first day . . . it still makes me cry.

So when the movie came out, Cameron, Cathy and I went to see it.  I had to peeeeeee, but I made myself wait until she had fallen into that net.  I had to see it and remember.

I thought it was a good movie.  They did a very good job with working aspects into the movie from the book.  However, I didn't leave there feeling happy or pleased.  I left the movie theater feeling empty and sad, and I wrote Cameron trying to explain that feeling.

You see, we sat there watching people we had come to care about deeply go through things that we knew would end with Tris dying.  No matter how happy or how many successes they had, I knew how it would end, I knew the pain Tobias would go through, and no matter what I just couldn't be happy for them.

The film made my heart ache for them again.

So I can't say I liked the movie.  I would say go see it, because it is a good representation of the first book, but be ready for more pain as every moment they are together on the big screen just reminds you that it all ends painfully.