Dear Mr. Zacharias,
Hi! My name is Johnny Sun. I highly respect your work sir, but you put the original, award winning novel The Pearl to shame. The book is known for it's remarkable lessons, and vivid details in which your movie seemed to lack. Your movie had absolutely none of the examples in which he was transforming into an animal. This was one of the most important reasons in the book explaining how greed will lead you to another side of you that awakens when you become selfish and self centered. Another reason that your movie was missing, is the knife he had from the beginning and the one he had encountered on his adventure. In your movie, out of nowhere he gets this long, sharp, and not to mention deadly machete which had taken the place of his working tool. In the book he had a regular knife to open up pearls which was a working tool that signified and complimented Kino's personality and nature. Later on, he upgrades to a machete which signified his inner personality and how the transformation was taking place. Finally, in the end the baby did not die. As much as this pains me to say, the baby should have, no, needed to die. Without the baby's death Kino would not have had a change of heart and an understanding of human nature. Also without the baby's death there would have been absolutely no point in throwing away the pearl. Mr. Zacharias, this movie is not worth 8 million dollars of funding. Many readers of the pearly would agree with me that the movie is terrible, right about now I am beginning to question if you read the book at all or heard a horrible summary from a close friend or family member. Overall this movie was very dissatisfying to readers like me. I hope that this letter has enlightened you and changed your idea about a good movie based on a spectacular book
With Hope,
Johnny Sun
