Carlos A Torres – Designer & Photographer

Just saw Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones a couple of days ago and the more I think and ponder on it the better the movie gets. This is a film that has no secrets to it. Pretty much everyone that goes to see it knows exactly what this movie is about and what’s going to happen. Credit is then due to the original material and to the filmmakers for weaving a story that even though sounds familiar, ends up being anything but. We’re all conditioned to see certain plot lines occur in movies of this topic but it is in these caveats that we find the difference between this film and others of similar topic. Think What Dreams What May Come, Premonition, The Invisible, all good films but all had the same predictable outcome and the same goal in mind. The Lovely Bones deviates from the norm to surprise us as the story unravels and as the ending arrives. You may not get the answers you’re looking for, you may not get the closure you desire but you’ll definitely get this film for the great story that it is.