Saoirse Ronan plays Susie Salmon, a teenage girl in the 1970s who is murdered by a local creepo, played by Stanley Tucci. It's certainly a startling story: a bold mix of horrible and sickly-sweet in a ratio of one to eight. Or maybe the movie believes in hell – but can't quite bring itself to say so.) (And the serial killer? When he dies? Well, I guess he gets to go to a different, less nice meadow. And then, once the living have got closure, she becomes united with the other victims, skipping hand in hand through a wonderful heaven which looks like a gorgeous meadow. It is a soothing, pseudo-redemptive fantasy which imagines that the teenage victim of a serial killer lives on, looking caringly over the lives left behind, in a weird but lovely-looking limbo, while the nearest and dearest can't get over the death. Instead of a compelling nightmare, he has created a bland, girly-sparkly dream. Now, with his defanged adaptation of the Alice Sebold bestseller The Lovely Bones – which softens and omits its nastier elements – it is as if Jackson has taken the spirit of Heavenly Creatures and turned it inside out, or upside down.
P eter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, from 1994, was about two young girls who become psychologically driven to commit murder, and who take refuge in an elaborate fantasy world.
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