LOVELY BONES MOVIE AT SGC DUNGARVAN CINEMA
Posted by SGC CINEMA DUNGARVAN on February 11, 2010
Lovely bones coming to SGC Dungarvan on 19th of February
Synopsis:
Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Shane Barton
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci
Directed by: Peter Jackson
SGC CINEMA DUNGARVAN said
The Lovely Bones Review by Niamh Power
Directed By: Peter Jackson
Main Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Rose McIver
Susie Salmon is a young girl who is savagely murdered near her home just as her life has started to begin. Peter Jackson’s latest film is an adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel and tries to show how her family members deal with their grief in different ways, how Susie must try and let go of Earth and how she begins to pity her killer.
Pretty much all the reviews I’ve read and heard about this film have been awful but I’ve read the book and seen the film and have loved both. The novel’s beginning is almost sickeningly harsh as it goes into detail about how Suzie is horribly raped and murdered in an underground hut. I was glad when Jackson skimmed over these details and only hinted at what was happening but none the less, the scene was horrible and very terrifying.
Ronan gave a brilliant performance and showed great emotion through out the film especially in the more scary scenes such as when she watches Mr. Harvey in the bathtub covered in blood, which was so disgusting and awful that I wanted to close my eyes. However, I must say, it was Stanley Tucci’s performance as Mr. Harvey that blew me away, he was utterly terrifying. Jackson’s camera work is at it’s best when he films Mr. Harvey, firstly in the underground hut and creates stomach churning dread and then again in his house, where you see him at his most twisted. The most thrilling part of the whole film happens when Susie’s sister Lindsey breaks into Harvey’s house and the tension is almost unbearable. Susan Sarandon played Grandma Lynn perfectly and tries to help the family in her destructive alcoholic way. Susie’s parents had a much greater part in the novel and I think they should have been developed a little bit more than they were in the film.
The 3D purgatory is extremely beautiful one moment and then very scary the next and for me, that’s why it was most effective. Susie could be in a sledding down a snowy slope one minute and then be brought suddenly into the darkness of Mr. Harvey’s house.
I thoroughly enjoyed this film and I think the story is amazingly original but if you’re going to see it, be prepared to be thrilled.