How lovely is "The lovely bones"?
Alice Sebold came out with her National bestselling book in 2002 called "The lovely bones". Then just eight years later, director Peter Jackson (Director of "The lord of the rings" Trilogy) came out with a sequel to the book, also titled "The lovely bones" The book and movie were as much alike as they were different. The movie did a magnificent job of capturing the characters from the books personalities as well as actions. The imagery used when describing Ms. Susie Salmons somewhat utopic heaven in the book was slightly different then in the movie.But does this make it alright for young teenage girls to look at death as something that's good, and everything ends happily?
Peter Jackson did a spectacular job of pairing up the personality of the characters from the book, to the movie. From Mr. Harvey's perverted, obsessive and constructive mind frame, to grandma Lynn's grotesque compulsion to drink and smoke as well as her unorthodox babysitting methods. However in the movie, Jack Salmon, Susie's father was send as the second detective, when in the book, he spent more time contemplating life and mourning his loss.
Susie's heaven was speculated in the movie to be this magnificently animated place which was constantly changing with her mood. But being as magnificent as it was, it was not a similar comparison to the book itself. The book portrayed Susie's heaven to be more realistic and down to earth, compared to her playing on a green ball with a tree stuck in the middle.
The speculation of heaving described by Alice Sebold was one that was positive and almost made it seem better than life right now. If being dead is better than living, then why live? These kind of thoughts should not be put in front of our children and youth today.
Pin point accurateness of the character comparison (Movie to book) and the stunning imagery and animation are all displayed in the movie "The lovely bones" (Directed by Peter Jackson). So if you and your children are interested in watching a happy and cheerful movie that sets a good and realistic example of life and death, then, do not go and see "The lovely bones"
