"I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world"
- Susie Salmon, The Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson is a well-known filmmaker. Just think about the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit. Beautiful films that have outstanding visual effects. But the one that struck me the most was The Lovely Bones. The scenes when Susie Salmon is in that dream-like place after she was murdered are so powerful to me. When I saw this film in the movie theater, I was mesmerized. My favorite scene from the film is the one where Holly is showing Susie the special place where they can be safe and do what they want. The transition from one scene o another is magical. That place has different environments, weather, and landscapes. It feels like I am in my dreams. I bet you know that feeling. It is an abstract feeling or emotion.
When I read the the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, I was wondering how Susie's own world looked like. I imagined her world as La Patagonia, which is a real region located between Argentina and Chile in South America. Why did I imagine Susie's own world as a real place? Simple. Because when I saw The Motorcycle Diaries film directed by Walter Salles, I thought that those place where Che Guevara visited with his friend were just visual effects, you know, fake. It turned out that those places where real, existent. I became obsessed with South America: Los Andes and La Patagonia are by far the places that I want to explore in depth. So, I wasn't surprised when I saw the film that Susie's own world resembled South America.
When I read the the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, I was wondering how Susie's own world looked like. I imagined her world as La Patagonia, which is a real region located between Argentina and Chile in South America. Why did I imagine Susie's own world as a real place? Simple. Because when I saw The Motorcycle Diaries film directed by Walter Salles, I thought that those place where Che Guevara visited with his friend were just visual effects, you know, fake. It turned out that those places where real, existent. I became obsessed with South America: Los Andes and La Patagonia are by far the places that I want to explore in depth. So, I wasn't surprised when I saw the film that Susie's own world resembled South America.
I've not watched this movie yet; the book was a little strange. Have you read "Lucky"? It's Sebold's memoir on the same topic. Mimi
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