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IMDB: The Lovely Bones (2009)



Recently watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it...

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Daniel

"Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division." -- Luke 12:51

I think the main problem with the Lovely Bones was that it didn't know whether it wanted to be touching philisophical piece about the afterlife and 'letting go' or a tense thriller.

As a result I think neither halves of the film quite worked.

That said I thought the acting and script were pretty good.

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ZebraMan aka Berny Mac

Of course, just from reading the synopsis, it is obvious that the theology is all wrong.

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David L (CA)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

The theology is wrong. But not offensivly so.

There is nothing anti-religious about the film and indeed it raises some interesting points about the nature of evil and suffering in the context of there being an afterlife, i.e the horror of child murder, while not exactly muted or lessoned by the fact that the victim goes to what I will describe as a 'lower level of heaven', is certainly given a different perspective.

As a random bit of trivia Mark Wahlburg who stars in the film is a practicing Catholic.

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ZebraMan aka Berny Mac

I still occasionally think about this film.

There were a few messages that it conveyed such as letting go of any evil that one may fully embrace good and that there is a 'plan' -that there is an order to everything and connectivity that goes beyond the disconnected disorder and chaos we may individually perceive as mortals.

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Daniel

"Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division." -- Luke 12:51