I haven't blogged in a while. Well, for the festive season. Everybody knows how that can get in the way. I hope everybody enjoyed their christmas and had a glorious new year...
I thought my first blog of 2010 would be about something i have been thinking a lot about over christmas.
I am currently watching for the second time, the film The Lovely Bones, created by none other than Peter Jackson. The genius behind Lord of The Rings, and one of my other fave movies of the season, District 9.
The Lovely Bones, originally a very successful book by Alice Sebold, is about the murder of a 14 year old American girl in the 70's names Susie Salmon, and the aftermath of her death on her family and her murderer, while she's in heaven watching them.
For such a grim story, i never expected myself to want to see such a film, and my dad has been unable to watch it all the way through as of yet.
The movie is completely gripping and it's so tense that you feel utterly involved. The imagery, however, is truly captivating and the reason to my whole obsession with the film. The heaven that Susie goes into is her own and based on her previous life and her feelings. Peter Jackson did an amazing job with the CGI and visual effects to create stunning scenery. Her heaven can go from mountain tops to deserts, fields, oceans and beaches, each more ideal than the last. Objects from her life are involved in the surroundings too, for example bottles ships sailing through her ocean, and the gazebo she was supposed to meet a boy in being the centre of her heaven, and as the film progresses you can see the iconography and links to each important detail in the film.
It is really hard to describe the cinematography to you unless you see it, but once you do... i reassure you that through weeping eyes you will agree.
The film is close to being shortlisted for many Baftas and i am sure will be the same at the Oscars.
I have managed to get a few images from the film, but i would definitely recommend seeing this once it's released at the end of January.
This film not only carries a story - as you say - but also produces some amazing fantastical images. You can see the influence of the NZ countryside on Peter Jackson, and see his style reminiscent of the Lord of the Rings etc. It is unmistakably his influence, and a very strong one at that. Good selection!
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