The Lovely Bones
Director: Peter Jackson
Year: 2009
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci
Unfortunately all the reviews I had read/ heard about this movie turned out to be correct. It's not a bad film as such, it's just that nothing really happens.
The film is based on the book Alice Sebold, where a 14-year old girl (Susie Salmon, played here by Ronan) is murdered, and then watches over her family in a place somewhere between heaven and earth.
The problem with the film is that, after Susie gets murdered (about half an hour in), there's not really much story left to tell. Whilst Susie watches over her family, she doesn't really do anything to intervene in their lives. We get to watch how they deal with their grief, but none of the family ever really does anything note-worthy enough to make a film about.
As far as I can remember (and it's a long time ago I read it, so I might be wrong) the film is pretty faithful to the book. And I didn't have these issues with the book, so I can only really conclude that the story just doesn't translate all that well to film. Having said that, the performances are all good, and the film looks amazing - especially the wonderful scenes of Susie in the in-between world.
Rating: 3 out of 5
About Me
- Anna Lawson
- I live in Bristol with my husband Dan (who I married in July 2007), my son Joe (born 2012) and daughter Jess (born 2015). I work at UWE (the University of the West of England) in Bristol as a Research and Open Access Librarian. I'm orginally from Exeter, so moving back to Bristol is a bit like coming home - especially as I studied for my undergraduate degree here (also at UWE). I love travelling and movies, although I get to do a lot less of both since the birth of our children. Although we have still managed to fit in holidays to the Isles of Scilly, Chamonix and a summer in California since Joe was born.
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