![]() ![]() Speaking from beyond her grave - speaking from a “perfect world” where she does indeed feel trapped - 14-year-old Susie here recalls herself younger and also observes her family and friends struggling to live without her. This start of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones is indicative of the troubles to come, as the film makes awkwardly literal the fantasy spun in Alice Sebold’s strange, provocative, and poetic novel. How neat and clever and constraining it can be. “He has a nice life, he’s trapped inside a perfect world.”Īh, foreshadowing. ![]() “I worried for him,” she says, even as her dad, Jack (Mark Wahlberg) reassures her. She’s looking at a snow globe, where a snowman stands alone. “Too small to see over the edge of the table.” As she tells you what she remembers, you see her - small and peeping over a table edge. “I remember being really small,” says Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan).
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