"These were my dreams on earth."

[lynnez59]

So I just learned that "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold has been made into a film. Not sure how I feel about this, since I love the book. Any book adapted to film has to be taken with a grain of salt and you have to go in accepting that pieces are going to be lost along the way...that it will be marketed for marketing sake and quite possibly lose some of the things that made it so dear to you. "The Lovely Bones" is the story of a murdered girl, who watches her family (and killer) as she sits in her heaven and wishes for her family to heal, for retribution, and for all the things she never got to experience in the way her siblings will. If there is a heaven I want it to be as Sebold describes because Susie's (the narrator) heaven is all of her own imagining, but occasionally drifts in and out of someone else's and in and out of reality.

The film was directed by Peter Jackson, which is promising to me since we know that a. he isn't afraid of length and b. I think he could capture the way the narration skips around from person to person and from reality to the spiritual. I do like his style (even his old films that no one remembers like "The Frighteners," "Heavenly Creatures," - okay people remember that one - and "Dead Alive"). The cast is rather promising (Rachel Weis, Susan Surandon, Stanley Tucci), though I defintily did not envision a Mark Whalberg type as the father in the story.

The trailer is here if interested.