The Lovely Bones Movie Review 2. The Lovely Bones is a deplorable film with this message If youre a 1. You can get together in heaven with the other teenage victims of the same killer, and gaze down in benevolence upon your family members as they mourn you and realize what a wonderful person you were. Sure, you miss your friends, but your fellow fatalities come dancing to greet you in a meadow of wildflowers, and how cool is that Advertisement. 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. 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 films primary effect was to make me squirmy. Its based on the best seller by Alice Sebold that everybody seemed to be reading a couple of years ago. I hope its not faithful to the book if it is, millions of Americans are scary. The murder of a young person is a tragedy, the murderer is a monster, and making the victim a sweet, poetic narrator is creepy. This movie sells the philosophy that even evil things are Gods will, and their victims are happier now. Isnt it nice to think so. I think its best if they dont happen at all. But if they do, why pretend they dont hurt Those girls are dead. Im assured, however, that Sebolds 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. Its not a feel good story. House-of-Bones.jpg' alt='Watch House Of Bones Full Movie' title='Watch House Of Bones Full Movie' />Perhaps Jacksons team made the mistake of fearing the novel was too dark. But its millions of readers must know its not like this. The target audience might be doom besotted teenage girls the Twilight crowd. Watch American Son Download Full. Advertisement. 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 1. 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 dont go around thinking, Man Is this great You simply are. 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. Theres 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 thats who he has to be, because a hes played by an otherwise unnecessary movie star, and b theres no one else in the movie it could be. Heres 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 Susies 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, shes good, too. This whole film is Jacksons fault. It doesnt fail simply because I suspect its message. It fails on its own terms. 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