Questionable by some critics, is Jackson's use of strong visual effects in portraying Susie's transition into the "in-between".
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It is at this juncture, or the "in-between", as she calls it, where Susie shockingly learns that she is not the first, but the most recent victim in a series of brutal murders.
But this is where her story begins, first discovering her own death, then being stranded between her overwhelming feeling of vengeance towards her murderer and watching her family suffer and tear apart during their untimely loss. Sadly enough, talking to a stranger was the last thing Susie Salmon did, before being murdered, dismembered and never to be found again. As Susie Salmon, Ronan portrays a time in America when "do not talk to strangers" was an unheard-of caution a time when children could roam freely and not have to live in fear of preying eyes.
In her narrative, Saoirse Ronan (pronounced Ser-Sher) explains her character's tragic end and what happens after. So coming back to the subject on hand, and since I did not read the novel, I can say without a pause, that the movie experience was decent enough to have had me glued to the screen from beginning to end. Even if you read one page at the rate of one minute, how would a 300 or 400 page novel translate into a 300 or 400 minute movie? Even if that were possible, what good would it be if the source material was not altered for the screen? And why shouldn't it be, given that both mediums are limited in creativity. So the next time you decide to lash out at a film maker for not living up to your novel (pun unintended) experience, think for a minute what it would be like to watch a movie, adapted word for word from the novel it's sourced. Rowling has her fair share of 'haters' when you talk about what Harry Potter does on screen, as compared to what he does in one of her books. Even so, I'm sure my experience was a lot better than those who read it and watched the film with the sole intention of harshly comparing one to the other. As such, I think it's safe to assume that my experience may have been better than those who did read her book. On the other hand, I have not read Sebold's novel. Apparently, because that is exactly what some mainstream critics seem to think. Judging by the largely negative criticism this film received, Alice Sebold's novel by the same name is apparently gutted by director Peter Jackson. There are now over ten million copies in print.Adapting a film from a source material that is anything but intended for cinema is always a tricky thing to do. Ī luminous, astonishing novel about life and death, memory and forgetting, and finding light in the darkest places, Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones became an instant classic when it was first published in 2002. But as Susie will come to realize, even in death, life is not quite out of reach. In the wake of her murder, Susie watches as her happy suburban family is torn apart by grief as her friends grow up, fall in love, and do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for - except what she most wants, which is to be back with the people she loved on earth. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My name was Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson.
Listen to an extract of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, read by Alyssa Bresnahan.
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