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The Lovely Bones (2009)
  
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Directed
by:
Peter Jackson |
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COUNTRY
USA/UK/New
Zealand |
GENRE
Drama/Fantasy |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Alle
mine kjære |
RUNNING
TIME
121
minutes |
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Produced
by:
Carolynne
Cunningham
Peter Jackson
Aimée Peyronnet
Fran Walsh |
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Written by
(based on the novel by Alice Sebold):
Fran Walsh
Philliba Boyens
Peter Jackson |
Review
Questionable is not a word strong
enough to describe the morals and message the extremely pretentious
The Lovely Bones delivers; it is downright preposterous – adhering
to a transcendental religious thinking with a lack of criticism that
reminds me of Sunday school doctrines. Exactly what the often great
filmmaker Peter Jackson wants to do here, besides create a pompous,
universal masterpiece, is hard to say. What is certain is that he tells
us that we shouldn't fear death (or even being mutilated and murdered),
because the ethereal existence that comes after is so much better and
uplifting. And it doesn't matter that our families are left bereaved, as
long as you know that you love them and can watch them from above.
"Heaven" is presented in such a hallucinatory, wondrous and Teletubbish
manner that it's as if Jackson urges us to go there sooner rather than
later. The overdone visuals take complete precedence and overshadow what
might have been an interesting story about death and mourning, and in
the process we're left deprived of logic and empathy. The beautiful
Saoirse Ronan is defenceless against Jackson's hollow mockery and his
insults to the earthly life. You have to be quite irrational or drugged
up to enjoy this movie.
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