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The Lovely Bones is a surreal thriller with strong performances, but when you make a movie from the perspective of heaven, you take on heavy responsibility of being all-knowing or close to. Bones deals with forgiveness, suspicion, but actually arrives at the conclusion that they're both useful.
From a technical point, it's a masterpiece of lighting, special effects, editing, sound design. Wahlberg gives an amazing performance as does semi-newcomer Saoirse Ronan (who plays Susie). Stanley Tucci brings a strong humane presence to his remorseless killer, Susan Sarandon is unforgettable as the fun drinking grandma. Even for all of these good things going for it, the story is ultimately too short and unfocused. It ends as if the whole while it has been about parallel obsessions, but it's always shifting around, not knowing what it wants to be.
It also recounts all of it's positive messages with negative ones. Eventually you need to forgive, actually never mind don't do that. Suspicion is good, wait it's bad, never mind it's good.
The Lovely Bones is a children's Zodiac, although even if the latter is more violent, it has better values than Bones. Which is practically a promotion of vengeance.
The Lovely Bones is a surreal thriller with strong performances, but when you make a movie from the perspective of heaven, you take on heavy responsibility of being all-knowing or close to. Bones deals with forgiveness, suspicion, but actually arrives at the conclusion that they're both useful.
From a technical point, it's a masterpiece of lighting, special effects, editing, sound design. Wahlberg gives an amazing performance as does semi-newcomer Saoirse Ronan (who plays Susie). Stanley Tucci brings a strong humane presence to his remorseless killer, Susan Sarandon is unforgettable as the fun drinking grandma. Even for all of these good things going for it, the story is ultimately too short and unfocused. It ends as if the whole while it has been about parallel obsessions, but it's always shifting around, not knowing what it wants to be.
It also recounts all of it's positive messages with negative ones. Eventually you need to forgive, actually never mind don't do that. Suspicion is good, wait it's bad, never mind it's good.
The Lovely Bones is a children's Zodiac, although even if the latter is more violent, it has better values than Bones. Which is practically a promotion of vengeance.