The Lovely Bones - the Journey

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The Lovely Bones (The Movie) THE JOURNEY – Related Material Assignment The Lovely Bones is a 2009 American film directed by Peter Jackson, and is a film adaption of the award winning and best selling 2002 novel of the same name written by Alice Sebold. The purpose of this movie is to give hope to those that have been inflicted with pain from the death of a loved one. It does this by exploring the journeys of different characters within the movie and looks into how they cope and move on from tragedy. The main character in this movie is 14 year old Suzie Salmon who lives with her parents and brother and sister. In the first half of the movie Suzie is lead into an underground den by neighbour George Harvey before being raped and killed. Suzie soon realises that she has not gone straight to Heaven, but has instead been pulled into what is known as ‘the in-between’, that is, neither Heaven nor Earth. Suzie remains in the in-between for a number of years where she is able to watch over her family and help lead them to her murderer. Though being told she is able to move on to Heaven and go to a better place, Suzie feels as though she still has things to do to help her family and friends on Earth before she does so. The journey concept of this movie is that sometimes, there are certain things that need to be taken care of before moving on. Peter Jackson sets up this movie from Suzie’s point of view, allowing the audience to see the things that she sees and feel the things that she feels. This assists in the audience being able to get a real understanding of Suzie’s character and the connections that she has. Jackson also has a great use of symbolism in this movie to represent different ideas and concepts in a creative way. Suzie feels as though she has a duty to her family to stay in the in-between before she passes on in order to help them find her murderer: “Holly
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