The movie, written by Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, is more concentrated, in time and focus. A few characters even realize she never completely left they sense her presence and, on occasion, believe they see her. In literary terms, she is a first-person narrator and an omniscient observer: She can enter the minds of other characters to know what they’re thinking and can even see into the past.Īs the years roll by, she witnesses how healing slowly comes but at great cost. She can thus describe with an empathetic dispassion her own rape-murder and her family’s realization that the eldest daughter will not be coming home. Sebold’s stroke of genius is to place her heroine in heaven immediately. Her family goes through hell - her dad having the most difficult time dealing with her disappearance - while her killer, a neighbor, covers his tracks. She is adjusting to her new home in heaven while watching life on Earth continue without her.
“Bones” is the story of Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl who is murdered Dec. This is, to Jackson’s credit, daring and deeply unsettling material. Whether “Bones” will sustain those numbers as it expands domestically and then into foreign territories in January is unclear.
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Readers’ eagerness to see the film version, plus Jackson’s name above the title, should deliver a significant boxoffice take during the film’s initial release. A philosophical story about family, memory and obsession has regrettably become a mawkish appeal to victimhood. Sebold’s otherworldly meditation on unspeakable tragedy and hard-earned healing has been transformed by Jackson into something akin to a supernatural suspense thriller.
In this case, though, he has changed the focus and characters to such a significant degree that his film might resonate more with those who have not read the book. Tolkien’s immensely popular “Lord of the Rings” novel and a second remake of the iconic film “King Kong.” So Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel “The Lovely Bones,” published in 2002, should be right in his wheelhouse. Peter Jackson certainly is familiar with the challenges of satisfying filmgoers’ expectations, having helmed three films derived from J.R.R.
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