Personally the most satisfying and favorite is the first 30 minutes of the movie, which is the passage before Susie is killed. This part is smooth and natural, with emotions and clues as well as the main characters all appearing, and under the warm and relaxed plot is disturbing suspense. When I saw this, I couldn't help wondering if the North American media were too harsh on Peter Jackson, but the film went from bad to worse from the 30th minute.
There is a great scene in the first part. When Susie faces the murderer in horror in the basement, her family is happily having dinner. The director constantly cross-edits between the two scenes, creating a very effective atmosphere gap. Equally effective is the last cross-cut near the end of the film. Susie "possessed" the psychic girl and kissed her beloved Ray, while the murderer was pushing the safe containing her body into the huge Garbage pit. The clips of the two scenes here are about Susie realizing that hatred is far less important than love, so she didn’t tell the psychic girl that her body was in that box, and chose to spend her last life in the world with Ray. One hour.
But apart from these two scenes, most of the editing methods in the film are ineffective and out of order. Because after Susie’s death, everything that happened in reality was told by her in the first person. What she saw was not only a running account, but also had a huge impact on her emotions and thoughts, allowing her to change from nostalgia to letting go. The hatred was relieved. However, the movie separates the two most of the time. On the one hand, Susie's dream scene in heaven is full of fancy and imaginative. On the other hand, it is the real world that has nothing to do with Susie, the broken family and the murderer's activities. The two are almost completely disconnected, and there are even a few consecutive paragraphs without Susie appearing at all. It feels like what happened in heaven is a fantasy movie, and what happened in reality is another suspenseful drama, and the switching of the shots will even change. There is no logic, and Susie's narration shows the huge flaws of the script. For example, I was quite disappointed by the way Susie observes the real world in heaven. The director asked her to stand in a white pavilion to make some reactions after seeing the real world. She saw Ray waiting for her through the illusion, or directly participated in her father. In the process of being framed in the cornfield, you can even see the real world through the frozen water droplets, but other than that, most of the time in the film Susie and the real world are broken, as if most of the things that happen in reality have nothing to do with her. , She just wandered in heaven, bored, sometimes happy, sometimes low, sometimes angry, and sometimes sad.
The chaos of the editing also led to the chaos of the narrative rhythm. The audience may have just been infected by the sad atmosphere but was suddenly drawn into the dream world. They want to admire the special effects and the big scene, and they have not slowed down and suddenly returned to the suspenseful atmosphere. Will the murderer be discovered? Such a chaotic mood has appeared many times in the movie, and I can't even sort out the narrative when I recall the whole movie after watching the whole movie. In addition, the soundtrack of the film has also appeared inexplicably many times.
Of course, it cannot be said that "Lovely Bones" is useless except for the first part. Although there is no emotional touch at all, the film finally succeeded in conveying the theme of the original work. There are also many highlights in the whole film. For example, the scene where Susie’s sister enters the murderer’s home to steal evidence is terrifying. The scene where her father follows the murderer into the cornfield but is framed is also very good. Of course, there is also the most gimmicky paradise. The drama runs through the whole film but is overwhelming. It seems that Peter Jackson's best is still the magic film. The performance of the actors is basically maintained at a standard. After the heroine Susie's actor Saoirse Ronan has a glimpse in "Atonement", this film once again proves that she will be a rising star in Hollywood; the number one contradictor Stanley Tucci is equally outstanding. , The perversion and hideousness suppressed in front of everyone can be seen through facial expressions; Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon can only be said to have successfully completed the task due to insufficient performance space.
After writing this, I realized that what I’m most disappointed in the film is not its chaotic narrative and rhythm, but all the parts that surprised me, I saw it in the trailer, especially the fantasy drama in heaven, which is particularly brilliant. Several scenes of the movie are in the trailer. I didn’t expect Peter the Great’s new work to be almost reduced to the kind of “trailer better” movie for me.
PS: It seems that many viewers do not understand the meaning of "cute bones".
The word "bones" appeared at the end of the movie, and the heroine's narration was a bit problematic.
The general idea should be that new bones will always grow after bones break, which means the heroine’s family and the family affection ~ it can also refer to the lives of those who care about her and love her.
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