The Lovely Bones (Film Adaptation)

Lovely Bones:

    The Film starts with a deep focus on the snow globe with a penguin trap in what is known as a "perfect world". Then the scene fades from the past, when Susie was younger, to the present time. Something important that I noticed was the high camera angle over the sink whole, its an important scene because that's where Susie's body got dumped. when Susie saved her brother's life I noticed that the music was first slow when Buckley was first hurt but, after when Susie started driving the car it became much more faster and it built more tension. During that part where she saved her brother. her grandmother said that she would live a long and happy life because she had saved her brother. I find this part as a dramatic irony, because the audience watching the movie knows that Susie will not live a long and happy life. This scene dissolved into a white light, and that's when Susie starts telling her story about how she got murdered. While Susie was in the mall, there was a shot when Susie was reading a magazine and she peeped up to look at her secret crush, while she was looking, Mr. Harvey, her murderer walked by, and was watching her. While Susie was walking home from school,there was a long shot to show  the audience what the surroundings looked like right before she encounters Mr.Harvey. The entire film was diegesis, because it every scene had a narrator. There was a dolley shot after Susie's murder, when she was trying to run away from her murder. That was before she was able to grasp the fact that she was dead. Another scene was when the Camera zoomed in on Buckley's drawing of where Susie is, "her heaven". 

Review on "The Lovely Bones" (Film)

Review:

    Peter Bradshaw, says that "The Lovely Bones" a startling story. "Its a mix of horrible and sickly-sweet in a ratio of one to eight". The lovely bones gives a pretty accurate picture of the afterlife. Bradshaw talks about the use of the term "my heaven" by Susie during the film. "Her spirit lives on, running desperately through the streets after the initial ­assault, ­unable at first to grasp that she is dead". This is a true statement. As you watch the film, it feels as though Susie is confused about her murder. She doesn't want to believe the fact that she is dead. When she focuses strongly enough, those who once knew her will feel her present. One example is her father and her little brother Buckley manage to see her just for a moment or feel her presents. Since Susie is in heaven, she is trapped in what she calls a "perfect world" just like the snow globe penguin that fascinated her as a baby in the beginning of the film. Peter Bradshaw says that it feels as though Jackson, the director of The Lovely Bones, has taken the meaning of heaven and "turned it inside out". In the film, ­instead creating a nightmare, he created a bland of "girly-sparkly" dream. I would definitely recommend this film to everyone. If you love suspend and tension, then The Lovely Bones is the right movie for you.