Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones is a screen adaptation of Alice Sebold's best selling novel.The movie is directed by Peter Jackson ( director of the Lord of the Rings). Saoirse Ronan is playing the lead role, portraying playful and solemn shades simultaneously.

The Lovely BonesJackson has done great work on screenplay with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. The Lovely Bones is all about the story of a life and everything that came after… The story is dark, a 14 year old girl was raped and murdered by her brutal neighbour. While resting in heaven, she tries to come to the terms with what has happened to her ? ( she has been murdered and raped). The Lovely Bones is a movie in which a teenage girl narrates her doubts, whimsical thoughts and fantasies after the life.

The visuals are good, director has taken visual inspiration from variety of sources like screen savers for tofu collectives, an album covers famous Hipgnosis designs, dragons and dungeons. His excessive reliance on voiceovers is making the movie a speech.Overall, The Lovely Bones is a blend of super-cheesy paranormal melodrama and standard-issue murder mystery. The ratings are 2/5.

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