Lovely Bones

Posted by Mrs Imran on Mar 27, 2010
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I love I love I love Lovely Bones so much. Syuhaidah suggested us to watch Lovely Bones and since I don’t have any preference, so we simply settle for the Lovely Bones.

What made me want to watch it;

1) Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold
2) Syuhaidah said she cried when reading the book

Eventho many reviews did not quite agree with the way Peter Jackson filmed the movie and some even say it is a mishmash of Lord Of the Rings and High School Musical. But still I love it. For me a good movie must have a great story. And lovely bones certainly does.

Here a short summary of the book:

The Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family and her killer from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
On December 6, 1973 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Susie Salmon takes a shortcut home from school. She is approached by a neighbor, George Harvey, a man in his mid-30s who lives alone and builds dollhouses for a living. He persuades her to enter an underground den he has recently built nearby. Once she enters, he rapes her, stabs her to death, then dismembers her body. An elbow, the only part of Susie ever to be found, falls out of his bag as he returns home, disposing of the remaining parts of the body by putting them in a safe and dropping it into a sinkhole. Meanwhile, Susie’s spirit flees toward her personal heaven.

Apparently the book and the movie isn’t similar. It is always frustrated to watch a movie based on book actually (except Lord of the Rings) . But in my case, since I haven’t read the book (Lovely Bones) so am pretty natural I should say. Kalau dah baca sure tk puas.

Lovely Bones is indeed a great family movie and I would highly recommend to watch it. While watching the movie, I kept thinking about Nurin. Only god knows what had became to her. I will take care my child to great extend, to the infinite.

Me and husband cried when watching this movie. I think maybe because we have a child and we certainly understand how painful it is shall our child gone missing. The pain is unbearable.

Protect your child from crime.