It doesn't fail simply because I suspect its message. We also meet one of Susie's grandmothers ( Susan Sarandon), an unwise drinker who comes on to provide hard-boiled comic relief, in the Shakespearean tradition that every tragedy needs its clown. Because the pyrotechnics are mostly upstairs with the special effects, all they need to be are convincing parents who have lost their daughter. Weisz and Wahlberg are effective as the parents.
#Watch the lovely bones full movie movie#
There's not much of a case to solve we know who the killer is almost from the get-go, and, under the Law of Economy of Characters that's who he has to be, because (a) he's played by an otherwise unnecessary movie star, and (b) there's no one else in the movie it could be. From her movie-set Valhalla, Susie gazes down as her mother ( Rachel Weisz) grieves and her father ( Mark Wahlberg) tries to solve the case himself. I have a lot of theologians on my side here.īut no. In an eternity spent in the presence of infinite goodness, you don't go around thinking, "Man! Is this great!" You simply are. Nor would there be thinking there, let alone narration. Seems to me that heaven, by definition outside time and space, would have neither colors nor a lack of colors - would be a state with no sensations. The heaven Susie occupies looks a little like a Flower Power world in the kind of fantasy that, murdered in 1973, she might have imagined. The owner of the lovely bones is named Susie Salmon ( Saoirse Ronan, a very good young actress, who cannot be faulted here). The target audience might be doom-besotted teenage girls - the "Twilight" crowd. But its millions of readers must know it's not like this. Perhaps Jackson's team made the mistake of fearing the novel was too dark. A more useful way to deal with this material would be with observant, subtle performances in a thoughtful screenplay. I presume the director, Peter Jackson, has distorted elements to fit his own "vision," which involves nearly as many special effects in some sequences as his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
I'm assured, however, that Sebold's novel is well-written and sensitive.
But if they do, why pretend they don't hurt? Those girls are dead. I think it's best if they don't happen at all. This movie sells the philosophy that even evil things are God's will, and their victims are happier now. The murder of a young person is a tragedy, the murderer is a monster, and making the victim a sweet, poetic narrator is creepy. I hope it's not faithful to the book if it is, millions of Americans are scary. It's based on the best-seller by Alice Sebold that everybody seemed to be reading a couple of years ago. The film's primary effect was to make me squirmy.
#Watch the lovely bones full movie serial#
In its version of the events, the serial killer can almost be seen as a hero for liberating these girls from the tiresome ordeal of growing up and dispatching them directly to the Elysian Fields. The makers of this film seem to have given slight thought to the psychology of teenage girls, less to the possibility that there is no heaven, and none at all to the likelihood that if there is one, it will not resemble a happy gathering of new Facebook friends.
0 kommentar(er)
