I wish that he would have just used the plot as Lois Lowry originally wrote it in Gathering Blue. Turning it into a "thriller" was a bit of a mistake, and it's pretty clear that this movie was drawn directly from a story like Gathering Blue given all the parallels. I can see that enough of the story isn't exact which gives enough rolm for it to be different, but the baseline is there. Man, this could've been so much better.