My Review and the Critics Reveiw of The Lovely Bones

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Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
“It's a ghastly, even hateful moment, and considering the wild shifts and switchbacks that have gone before, completely unearned.”The Lovely Bones" wants you to think that it's deep, but it's as shallow as the shoals where those ships in their bottles fetch up. The whole movie feels like a juggernaut of literary pretension and cinematic overreach, run fatally aground” (Washington Post).
The Lovely Bones is technically a beautiful film, the acting, music, cinematography and production design are excellent, it could be a emotional film to get swept up in but there lies the problem, there's just too much going on to keep your attention on, is it about the afterlife?, a serial killer?, a crime story? A family drama? It's all of them and more!” (NYTimes).
I totally agreed with the first critic. The movies was not as good as I expected it, the book was a lot more descriptive than the movies, although the movie had a good special effect the plot was not very interesting. I know that making a movies requires a lot of money, but I felt like the directors took out the best parts of the movies and it was I taking bits of a papers and taping them up together. I thought that the movies lacked a lot of details when it came to what it wanted the audience to think. There was lot going on according to the second critics.

Trailer The Lovely Bones

The Flim trem of the Lovely Bones

The lovely bone was directed by Peter Jackson, a four time academy film winner.
The beginning of the movie started with a cheesy country song to show how peaceful and happy the Salmon family used to be before the death of Susie. There was a landscape shot to show the countryside of Philadelphia, the state in which the movie took place. After that there was a long shot to the corn field, this then they show Susie’s house. It was used to show a connection between the Salmons house and the cornfield in which Susie was killed. There were lots of close up and reaction shots in the movie to how the characters were suppose to act or for the audience to infer what the next action is going to be. There was a low angle shot at when Susie was taking picture Mr. Harvey’s house, this implies that at the spot where that camera was facing down, something would be hidden there. When Susie would daydream about Ray Singh, the director ordered to use a medium to long shot this emphasizes that Ray was significant to Susie. Before Mr. Harvey killed Susie, he would stare at her. Once the film makers used a frame within a frame shot to show Mr. Harvey spying on Susie as she goes to school, this creates suspense that Susie would be his next victim. An ominous song was played when Susie mother handed her the hat she knitted, well the hat was what was found after Susie was murdered.
There was a dissolve the show the place where Susie soul goes to it was mixed with cloud, the sun rising, a park and the ocean, this pictures were used to represent loneliness that for coming happiness. There was a snapshot on Susie’s bracelet, and when Mr. Harvey threw the bracelet into the ocean and the ocean took the bracelet away, Susie was running in a field and the field began to turn into water and she later drown in it. Light and life effect was used to show life living Susie. There was a long shot of Susie in her tree house, show lowliness, only her and tree and nothing else. Mr. Harvey begins to look for another victim and when Lindsey, Susie’s younger sister ran by his house, an ominous song played and this showed that she was the next victim if Harvey has a chance. There was a time different in the movie; it keeps going to the pass, form when Susie was younger to older. Also they showed how she died and the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed. There was a dolly shot used as Lindsey search Mr. Harvey’s room for clues to link him to Susie’s killing. The effects in the movie were good.
My reaction, I did not like it, the movie skipped some of the most important t and funny scenes that the book had. The book was a lot descriptive that the movie.