The Lovely Bones 4K 2009 Ultra HD 2160p

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14-year-old Suzy Salmon was raped and murdered by a deranged neighbor. As a disembodied ghost, she watches over her family’s life and longs for the killer to be caught.

Review 4K Movie

I read the novel of the same name by Alice Sebold. And it didn’t make much of an impression on me, unlike the movie. Its greatest strength, in my opinion, was the two actors—Saoirse Ronan and Stanley Tucci. Saoirse was the perfect Suzy Salmon—kind, smart, naive, and loving. A girl with the whole vast world lying before her. She had her whole life ahead of her. If only… If only there weren’t people like George Harvey in this vast world. And here I can’t help but mention Stanley Tucci—one of my absolute favorite actors. He can play just about anything. He managed to play George Harvey too, though it wasn’t easy for him, if the press is to be believed. But the character he created is so believable—and this man is so terrible and repulsive—that it’s impossible to tell whether he’s even human at all.

The film’s director, Peter Jackson, has been accused of getting carried away with all sorts of otherworldly beauties and forgetting why he started this all in the first place. But I disagree. To me, the entire film is a poem about a life that never happened. About a first date that never took place. About everyday life, holidays, joys, sorrows, happiness, and heartbreak. About children, grandchildren, births, weddings, illnesses, and losses. About everything that makes up life. The life that Susie was supposed to live. The life her parents were supposed to live. If only...

This is probably the only movie I’ve watched with a lump in my throat from the very first frame to the very last.