Tuesday, June 29, 2010 The Lovely Bones - WATCH IT! Posted by Jessica at 7:12 PM

No Spoilers.....

I'm sure if you have seen the previews before that you know the basis. A girl is killed and she narates the movie from the "in between" I guess like a purgatory of sorts. Now I have not belief in purgatory but that is neither here nor there. I read this book years ago and loved it and I equally love the movie. Peter Jackson got a lot of flack for portraying the "in between" in the fanciful way he did but I found that aspect of the movie quite fantastic. I think he did a great job!

Saoirse Ronan did a wonderful job as the main character as did Mark Wahlberg as the grieving father trying to find the guilty man. Stanley Tucci was downright terrifying as the creepy neighbor in the movie.

It is a tear jerker and it will wrench your emotions in parts. I balled for a LONG time!
However, given the nature of the movie it was done as tastefully as possible with no disgusting parts and no unnecessary gore. Given movies nowadays that was quite impressive!

So give it a go - it is a great great movie! Oh and my husband liked it too so this is NOT a chick click!

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”