Member review

Lovely Bones is a heart-breaking mystery thriller starring Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon. “Lovely Bones” claimed a winning Oscars award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated films and also nominated for the BAFTA and Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards along with other awards. The world premiere occurred on 24th November 2009.

The plot is both fictional and based on true events. Peter Jackson conveyed a sensational spine-chilling and supernatural atmosphere of the in between world of heaven and earth. The protagonist Susie Salmon is a sweet, young 14-year-old girl was inspired by an actual girl who had went through this experience of getting murdered. The beginning of story is her narrating her own story, witnessing the events on earth while seeing her family and friends struggling to cope with the terms of her death.

The main reason why I liked this film was the fantastic acting of Mark Wahlberg (Jack Salmon aka, Susie’s Father) and Stanley Tucci (George Harvey aka, The neighbour). Both of these actors portrayed their characters very well in different ways Mark playing as the Father showed and expressed how a bond between him and the daughter when she was killed was severed by the death revealing the impact and determination to find who killed his child. Although this scene when was heart-breaking seeing him destroy all the glass bottles with modelling boats which he had made with her due to his emotions of grief, pain, sadness and anger. On the other hand, we have Stanley Tucci, playing as the neighbour as he shows how emotionless he was to kill her along with the intense level of creepiness was very disturbing in some moments as he is sitting his chair playing with Susie’s charm while thinking of his next victim is just disgusting because it makes him happy and cures his boredom. I would say this role was probably very challenging for Stanley Tucci which is why admire the hard work he put into the role of this character.

There wasn’t any moment I didn’t like in the film though the weirdness of how Ruth Connors was presented as a mediator as the spirit of Susie Salmon entered her own body while Roy and her kissed while you saw Susie’s young self, because it was very unusual. This also challenged the beliefs about heaven and the in-between world.

Overall, I personally enjoyed the film and I would recommend this to any age group above the age of 15+ because this film was very emotional, unsettling and even joyful!