Title: The Lovely Bones is a lovely film
Product review: I think the professional critics were way too hard on this movie. Maybe it was because I was expecting so little, I came away from my first viewing pleasantly surprised and moved by the beauty of this film. I love Peter Jackson's work. Heavenly Creatures is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I think this film surpasses that one in visual beauty. While this movie is not a literal adaptation of Sebold's The Lovely Bones, it remains faithful to the spirit of the novel and to its most important plot elements. The movie does a wonderful job in exploring the evolution of the victim's character, after her death. My only quibble with the film is that I wish that it had spent a little more time in developing how her family gradually became reconciled to her passing. But no matter, this is still a beautiful movie that handles a most brutal crime in an unflinching, yet transcendant manner.
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