The film "Lovely Bones": reviews

The film "Lovely Bones", reviewed in this article, is the famous drama directed by Peter Jackson. The picture was released in 2009. It is a screen version of the novel of the same name by the American writer Alice Siebold, which became a bestseller at the time.

The plot of the movie

The picture "Lovely Bones" reviews basically got positive. The film takes place in the state of Pennsylvania in 1973. The narration is conducted on behalf of the main character Susi Salmon (played by Sears Ronan). She lives with her parents, younger sister and a very small brother. Suzy is 14 years old.

The plot begins at the supermarket, where Susie meets the Englishman Ray, who attracts the girl. Attention to this draws her grandmother, who tells her about her first romantic memories. About the first kiss, which has become one of the best moments of a lifetime.

In the school's film club Susie sees the film "Othello", and then unexpectedly again meets in the corridor Ray. He appoints her a date.

Meeting with a stranger

Inspired by the coming evening, Susie returns home through a cornfield. To meet her neighbor George Harvey (played by Stanley Tucci). He is already a grown man, much older than a girl. George offers her to see a special refuge. According to him, he created a house underground, specially built for children's games. Susie examines the house, but when he wants to leave, a neighbor kills her. Leaving this world, the soul of Suzy touches the girl Ruth, who begins to feel her presence. On Saturday at the appointed time, she comes to the alley where Susie is waiting for Ray. After this evening they begin to meet.

In the movie "Lovely Bones" Suzy's soul should go to heaven, but she gets stuck in the middle world, since she can not leave her people close to her. From her paradise shelter, she begins to follow her family and her killer. At the same time, they all feel the girl next to her from time to time.

Meanwhile, the investigation of her disappearance is stalled. The corpse can not be found, because Harvey hides him in the safe of his cellar. Parents of the girl in mourning. Father does not give up, trying to find the killer. He is sure that this is someone she knew. Suzy's mother can not withstand such pressure and leaves for California on the advice of her grandmother. There she takes a new job and begins a new life.

The killer is uncovered

Suzy wants to punish her killer. By that time, the girl's father realizes that the killer Harvey, he found his image on one of the photos taken by Susie. But he has no proof. In the police, he is warned that in this case the problems can begin at the very father of Susie.

One day he sees Harvey in a cornfield, rushes after him with a baseball bat, but stumbles upon a couple in love. He is severely beaten.

And Harvey again has a desire to kill. This time, he pays attention to the sister of Suzy - Lindsay. Susie, while in her world between heaven and earth, learns that she was not the first victim of a maniac. Before that, he had already killed several girls.

About who the criminal, begins to guess and Lindsay. She makes her way to his house, finds a diary in which the murder of her sister is described in detail. But returning home, finds a mother who came from California. Not wanting to spoil the moment of family reunion, the diary tells his grandmother.

Harvey had seen Lindsay make his way to his house, but had not managed to catch up with her. He realizes that he will soon be revealed. Safe with the body Susie throws into the pit on the outskirts of the city, and he hurries away.

Final picture

The film "Lovely Bones" having responded to the audience received such positive things thanks in large part to the ending. Susie refuses to go to heaven with the souls of other girls.

Instead, she gets into Ruth's body to enjoy the first kiss in her life. Only then does she leave the world of the living forever. In her family, everything is gradually improving. Lindsay has a young man. They are waiting for the child.

Harvey also manages to escape justice and settle in another city. But soon he perishes, having broken off a steep cliff. At this time, he was just looking out for his new victim, since he could not get rid of the craving for murders.

Susie Salmon

Sirsha Ronan starred in the movie "Lovely Bones." Reviews about the actors, in the first place about Ronan himself, came positive from both viewers and critics.

Ronan is an Irish actress. At the time of filming she was 15 years old, almost like the main character.

Her film career, she began in 2003, appeared in one of the episodes of the series "Clinic." Two of her most notable roles are Briony Tallis as a child in the military melodrama of Joe Wright's The Atonement and Eilish Lacey in the melodrama of John Crowley's Brooklyn. For them, she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Oscar awards.

Stanley Tucci

In the movie "Lovely Bones" reviews of many viewers are devoted to the brilliant game of the main anti-hero - Mr. Harvey, whose role was played by Stanley Tucci.

This is an American actor who started his career back in 1985 in the crime comedy John Huston "The honor of the family Prizzi."

The most successful was the image he created in "Lovely Bones." In the reviews of the film must have marked his game. And the actor was nominated in the category "Best Supporting Actor" at almost all major film festivals - the Golden Globe, Satura, claimed the USA Screen Actors Guild Award and the "Critics' Choice Award". But he lost everything. I got into the short list and the Oscar. Here the winner was recognized as Christoph Walz, who played Hans Land in the blockbuster Quentin Tarantino "Inglourious Basterds."

Original Source

Analyzing "Lovely Bones" reviews about the film very often boiled down to comparing the picture with the original novel. The merit of the director is that most of those who read this work, favorably treated the screen version. What happens infrequently.

This novel was written in 2002 by Alice Siebold. "Lovely bones" reviews were immediately enthusiastic - and from readers, and from literary critics. In this story, a lot of autobiographical. The writer herself was raped in 1981, when she studied at the first year of university. After 16 years, she was able to cope with this trauma and wrote her biography, which she called "Lucky."

The fact is that in the tunnel in which she was outraged, shortly before that the girl was killed and dismembered. So she, in a certain sense, was lucky. Later, Sibold recognized the criminal and reported him to the police.

Siebold's novel "Lovely Bones" had a sudden success. The reviews were most benevolent, despite the fact that it was only the second book of a little-known author. She immediately entered the list of top bestsellers of the year.

In 2007, Siebold wrote another novel, it is called "Almost the Moon". This is a story about a woman who lived for many years for the sake of others. One day she decides to change everything dramatically and kills her elderly mother, who suffers from insanity and agoraphobia.

The following day, which are described in the work, she receives help from her ex-husband, who becomes an involuntary accomplice in the crime. Enter into an intimate relationship with the son of his best friend, incidentally hiding from the police, which is on its heels. The novel is filled with lyrical digressions, in which the main character recalls the uneasy relationship with her mother, who were throughout childhood.

Directed by Peter Jackson

This is not the first successful work for director Peter Jackson, who decided to film "Lovely Bones." Critics' reviews were predominantly positive.

With the screen version, it's not the first time he's encountered. His most successful work is the embodiment on the screen of the fantasy epic John R. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings." For the painting "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", he received three Oscar statuettes - for the best film, best adaptive script and as the best director.

In his paintings, he often appears in the cameo. In the movie "Lovely Bones" Peter Jackson played a photographer in the store.

Positive reviews

The film "Lovely Bones" aroused great interest among viewers around the world. It is worth noting that in general, positive reviews of the picture was more, about 80%.

Those who liked this work of Jackson, noted that the director managed to visually show the dissonance in which the main character turned out to be. In one evening she came from an almost ideal world in which she had everything (a loving family, school successes, the first teenage romance) into the world of a bloodthirsty maniac who fanatically kills young girls.

Fans liked this film's touching, which tells the story of the unhappy Susie. And the plot itself literally captures from the first frames and does not let go until the very end. The main thing that this film teaches is the need to love each other, while everyone is alive. After all, everyone knows the proverb that we do not store only what we have, and after losing we begin to cry.

Spectators and critics also noted the successful selection of actors for main and secondary roles. Stanley Tucci managed to play an ordinary-looking man, to whom the spectator began to disgust from one of his kind. Relevant were in the picture and special effects, which organically supplemented the picture with the appropriate mood.

Negative feedback

But there were a lot of those who did not like "Lovely Bones". Reviews of opponents of the film were based on the fact that the form of submitting the material was as simple as possible and stereotyped. Many did not like the fact that the novel was simplified as much as possible before moving it to the screen. The scriptwriters shortened the time intervals, the depths were removed from the relationship between the characters.

As a result, it turned out that the actor's work was minimized, the evolution of feelings that occurs in each of the main characters, slipped from the viewer's eyes. Instead, Jackson was accused of paying too much attention to frequent repetitions-memories, often pointless.

Prior to the banality, the semantic subtext of the picture is also reduced. This is the main claim of those who remained dissatisfied with the picture.