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A fourteen-year-old girl in suburban 's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
The story of a life and everything that came after Rated PG for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language. Did you know Edit. Trivia In Alice Sebold 's original novel, a disturbing rape scene is recounted in great detail, an experience that Sebold had as a young woman. Writer, Producer, and Director Peter Jackson chose to omit this section of the story, feeling that the re-enactment of the ordeal would have not just overwhelmed this movie, but been too traumatic a sequence for the young Saoirse Ronan to endure.
Alice Sebold reportedly disagreed with this omission. Stanley Tucci , for his part, claimed that it was difficult enough for him to play scenes in which George was thinking about molesting Susie, and that he never would have agreed to perform an actual rape scene. Goofs George Harvey had to have dug out a rather large amount of earth to build the underground room where he murdered Susie. When we see him luring Susie into the room there is no pile of dirt anywhere in view. He would have also had to use the dirt to fill in the hole after dismantling the room.
Where did all of that dirt go? Additionally, he digs this deep underground room in one night, in the middle of winter, using only a shovel. This is impossible since, in Pennsylvania, the ground is typically frozen solid throughout the winter, and deep digging cannot be done without special equipment, such as a steam shovel.
Quotes [last lines] Susie Salmon : [voiceover] When my mother came to my room, I realized that all this time, I'd been waiting for her. User reviews Review. Top review. Quality Movie. To start with, I never really write reviews However, I feel that the time has come as I'm sick and tired of bookworms always saying'It's not as good as the book'..
Fact of the matter is, a film and a book are two entirely different mediums, so let's dispense with your take on what the film should have been like and how it actually is. When you're reading a book, you're visualising everything yourself.
Sure the book is the story, but the beauty of the book is that your imagination fills in the holes. So no movie will ever be as good as a book in that sense. Personally I love movies far more than I could ever love a book. Purely because I get tired of authors spending 20 minutes telling me what a room looks like when with a movie I see it in a blink of an eye and be more than satisfied.
This for me is a quality movie. It has a great story, a great cast and is more than worth watching. This movie will have you thinking all kinds of things.
Not just things about the movie, but also you're own life along the way. I strongly recommend this movie. And hey, it's gotta be better than a book. Isn't it nice to think so. I think it's best if they don't happen at all. But if they do, why pretend they don't hurt? Those girls are dead. I'm assured, however, that Sebold's novel is well-written and sensitive. 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.
A more useful way to deal with this material would be with observant, subtle performances in a thoughtful screenplay. It's not a feel-good story. Perhaps Jackson's team made the mistake of fearing the novel was too dark. But its millions of readers must know it's not like this. The target audience might be doom-besotted teenage girls -- the "Twilight" crowd. The owner of the lovely bones is named Susie Salmon Saoirse Ronan , a very good young actress, who cannot be faulted here. The heaven Susie occupies looks a little like a Flower Power world in the kind of fantasy that, murdered in , she might have imagined.
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. Nor would there be thinking there, let alone narration. In an eternity spent in the presence of infinite goodness, you don't go around thinking, "Man! Is this great! I have a lot of theologians on my side here. But no. 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.
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. Here's something bittersweet. Weisz and Wahlberg are effective as the parents.
Because the pyrotechnics are mostly upstairs with the special effects, all they need to be are convincing parents who have lost their daughter. This they do with touching subtlety. 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.
Well, she's good, too. This whole film is Jackson's fault. It doesn't fail simply because I suspect its message. It fails on its own terms. It isn't emotionally convincing that this girl, having had these experiences and destined apparently to be 14 forever although cleaned up and with a new wardrobe , would produce this heavenly creature. What's left for us to pity?
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