The Lovely Bones
This is a movie which you can sit back and enjoy the superfluous imagery it builds in front of your eyes. You will completely miss the underlying theme of conflict, pain and love. Or if you manage to take a closer look at the eyes of the actors you'll notice the sorrow and beauty of the story. It took me a second look to go beyond the visual grandeur and let my mind absorb the message the movie is trying to shout out.
The message that has managed to seep through the corners of my mind is of hope and love. It sounds simple but as we know wisdom is supposed to be uncomplicated yet as elusive as the shooting star. There is a silent victory hidden in a loss. Hidden beneath the layers of disappointment and sorrow lies a small victory. In the movie Susie Salmon (played by young Irish actress Saoirse Ronan) traverses through the maze of the world "in-between" she comes across emotions ranging from disappointment to vengeance to pain and finally alleviation.
Eventually she comes to the point where she has to decide whether the desire of vengeance takes priority over the integrity of her now lost family. Although the family is lost and she is in a world of wilderness she must take responsibility of her actions in the "in-between" world. The family never find Susie's body and the killer is never caught. But the family draws comfort from the fact that identity of the murderer is known. While Susie draws comfort from the realization that her family would be fine without her and she will be in their memories without hurting them.
So in a way the world "in-between" is the time we take to recuperate from a failure and search for the hidden victory. It's in the hidden victory we get the power to move forward and bring peace to our mind.
Dustin Hoffman
In an interview with Inside the Actors Studio, Dustin Hoffman talks about the necessity to have a failure quotient in acting. He further adds if you don't fail you're denying yourself the gift. There is nothing wrong in failing. Perhaps it's in failures we are pushing our limits. And perhaps in failures we find the courage to dream higher. So failure is good for health.
However this post is dedicated to "The Lovely Bones". A movie that brings the audience closer to the mortality of life and at the same time points to the immortality of the mind and the actions.
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| The Lovely Bones |
The message that has managed to seep through the corners of my mind is of hope and love. It sounds simple but as we know wisdom is supposed to be uncomplicated yet as elusive as the shooting star. There is a silent victory hidden in a loss. Hidden beneath the layers of disappointment and sorrow lies a small victory. In the movie Susie Salmon (played by young Irish actress Saoirse Ronan) traverses through the maze of the world "in-between" she comes across emotions ranging from disappointment to vengeance to pain and finally alleviation.
Eventually she comes to the point where she has to decide whether the desire of vengeance takes priority over the integrity of her now lost family. Although the family is lost and she is in a world of wilderness she must take responsibility of her actions in the "in-between" world. The family never find Susie's body and the killer is never caught. But the family draws comfort from the fact that identity of the murderer is known. While Susie draws comfort from the realization that her family would be fine without her and she will be in their memories without hurting them.
So in a way the world "in-between" is the time we take to recuperate from a failure and search for the hidden victory. It's in the hidden victory we get the power to move forward and bring peace to our mind.
Dustin Hoffman
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| Dustin Hoffman at Inside the Actors Studio |
However this post is dedicated to "The Lovely Bones". A movie that brings the audience closer to the mortality of life and at the same time points to the immortality of the mind and the actions.
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