Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
Based from the best selling novel of the same name by Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones is set in Pennsylvania, where the author grew up, in 1973. She wrote the books The Lovely Bones and Lucky because of she was brutally raped when she was a freshmen in college and she wants to send a message about the hardship and trauma that comes with that horrible experience. The film is about a 14-year-old girl named Suzie Salmon, who was raped and killed. It circles around the people around her and how they are trying to cope with her loss and finding who is responsible for her death. After her death, Suzie was pulled in the in-between, where she watches the people she left behind. The in-between is like purgatory, where Suzie stays because of her struggle in accepting her feeling about her shortened life despite the encouragement to move on by her friend in the afterlife, Holly played by Niki SooHoo. Directed by the Academy award winner Peter Jackson, who is famous for ...