The Lovely Bones :) - Part 1

This movie was absolutely AMAZING! I watched the movie, The Lovely Bones, with my father and it was an extremely touching movie. My father and I did not budge from the couch and at the end of the movie I came out in tears. The beginning of the movie starts off with a quote from the beginning of the book. 

 The movie starts out with an introduction of Susie Salmon (like the fish) and a few lines from the book. The narrator is Susie who is speaking to us (the audience) from "her heaven". Her heaven is pictured in the movie as a reality of everything she wants, which is ever changing. In her heaven she is able to see how everyone is doing back home but she is also able to really live in what she thinks is her perfect home. She meets a girl, Holly, and at first we don't know why she shows up to help Susie out. Later on in the film we find out that Holly was also a victim of Mr.Harvey; she also got raped and killed. One thing I really liked about the production of this movie was its uses of the "over the shoulder" shot. I liked this particular camera angle because it gave us more of a feeling of what Susie was actually seeing. They also zoomed in and out of the shots to show how close Susie was to her family but at the same time she was actually so far. The director faded in and out more towards the end when she was revealing the names of all the other girls that the sick twisted Mr.Harvey raped and killed. When the movie ended I ran into my dads arms and cried because I could not imagine how someone could do that to a little girl. I began to think to myself that there truly are some SICK people in this world and I went and thanked both of my parents for their over-protectiveness. I admit at times it gets annoying but they do it to prevent things like that to happen to me. Overall this movie was phenomenal and I recommend EVERYONE to go see it.