Lovely Bones Review
January 21, 2010 • written by Brittney Gossett
With an all-star cast, visually stimulating effects, and an award-winning director, I had nothing but high hopes for the movie based on Alice Sebold’s beloved novel, The Lovely Bones. However, from the perspective of one who had read the novel, the movie did not capture the horrific honesty that Sebold portrays in the story.
Whereas the movie did outline the main events well, it left out many of the dark territories that Sebold brings to life in her novel. For example, the death of the main character, Susie Salmon, in which she is raped, gagged with her mothers own hand-knitted hat, and then detached from her limbs in order to fit her body into a safe; all accomplished by her neighbor Mr. Harvey. To fix this disturbing death for a 14-year-old girl, the movie revealed Mr. Harvey cleaning the blood from his bathroom and mentioned nothing of her actual murder.
Now I’m not trying to turn this movie into a cheesy gore-fest, but I feel displaying important facts on how the family was affected by Susie’s death would have been far more interesting rather than the glorified “in between heaven and earth world” that stole most of the screen time.
To put my theory to the test, I sent my sister to see the movie and did not reveal my opinion on the film until after she told me hers first. As it turns out, my sister loved the movie and thought it was “different and pretty.” My sister has not read the book.
It seems that they have taken The Lovely Bones, and made it into nothing but lovely and left out the bones.
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