I just watched The Lovely Bones. And it was one of the most stupid, pointless, nauseating goddamn movies I've ever seen in my fucking life
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spoilers ahead soaquaenumenJanuary 24 2010, 09:30:55 UTC
I'm fine with whodunnits or whatever in movies, the problem was watching this movie - having watched a lot of stuff lately where ghosts do shit about their murders - with Susie cavorting around her fake heaven while her murderer plots to kill her little sister, well. If you're looking for a movie where the ghost kicks the bad guy's ass, you'll have to look elsewhere.
Part of the problem was also the similarities to the Klaas case that made it so intensely personal - Polly was 12, the manhunt for her body and her killer lasted 3 years, she was raped and strangled and her remains were recovered in a forest 15 minutes away from my house, etc. So in a lot of ways it was like reliving those years - except the movie escalates it.
Narratively, there was very little point in the way it dealt with trauma, because the glimpses of the family trying to deal with it were disjointed by the reoccurring examinations of the murderer, and spoiler highlight to read the fact that her remains were dumped in the sinkhole and never recovered means for that family that they never got closure, and then the guy basically gets away with it.
Theoretically I understood the point of the story as an exploration of grief, but the passivity of the main character, the lack of resolution for the family, the attempts to mix the charmingly joyful with the dark and dangerous... ugh. I feel so sick over it this is going to bother me for days.
Part of the problem was also the similarities to the Klaas case that made it so intensely personal - Polly was 12, the manhunt for her body and her killer lasted 3 years, she was raped and strangled and her remains were recovered in a forest 15 minutes away from my house, etc. So in a lot of ways it was like reliving those years - except the movie escalates it.
Narratively, there was very little point in the way it dealt with trauma, because the glimpses of the family trying to deal with it were disjointed by the reoccurring examinations of the murderer, and spoiler highlight to read the fact that her remains were dumped in the sinkhole and never recovered means for that family that they never got closure, and then the guy basically gets away with it.
Theoretically I understood the point of the story as an exploration of grief, but the passivity of the main character, the lack of resolution for the family, the attempts to mix the charmingly joyful with the dark and dangerous... ugh. I feel so sick over it this is going to bother me for days.
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