The Lovely Bones

The question I have is how can they say that they made "The Lovely Bones" into a movie when the story was barely left intact. Not only were there numerous things either changed or left out, but I feel that the essence of the story was lost as well. The point of the story is that a girl watches her family and her killer from heaven while she struggles to come to terms with what happened. It seems that the parts where she is in heaven she is either frolicking through a field or she is wondering what is in the lighthouse. The point of her being there was that she spent most of her time watching her family because she just couldn't let them go. This gets completely lost in the movie. And the parts where it is with her family it seems like a whodunnit case. Once again, this wasn't the point. On Earth Susie sees her family torn apart by the tragedy. The ending...oh god the ending. I won't go into it in case there are people who haven't seen it but it was complete crap. I understand that making a book into a movie is difficult and often things may need to be changed or cut out, but Peter Jackson destroyed the integrity of the story. If you can't do the book justice, then don't do it at all.

My comments:

I hadn't nocited this book actually. I found this book from an English magazine. I found that I was wondering what the story was. And I think it's interesting that the author pointed the murder at the beginning of the story. I also want to write a story for writing and for fun. Probably, I'll go to the theather to see this movie.



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