I Suck At The Lovely Bones

Last night, I fed my movie addiction by watching yet another movie. Yes, I may have a movie addiction problem. Movies are like crack to me. And thanks to Whitney Houston, all of us now know that crack is whack.

Interestingly enough, Verizon called yesterday offering me yet another trial movie package for three months. I found it funny that they called, seeing as how they just recently gave me a trial movie package. This package, however, was for Showtime and its sister networks. Verizon was ready to sign me up with the package until I reminded them that I was already on a trial movie package. Oh well, perhaps next time.

Anyway, the movie that I ended up watching was The Lovely Bones.

(The video below is a trailer for The Lovely Bones.)


Now I suck at The Lovely Bones. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Alice Sebold. Taking place during 1973 in Pennsylvania, the plot is about a 14 year old girl who becomes the victim of a serial killer who happens to live in the neighborhood. The story unfolds through her eyes as she watches from Heaven the aftermath of her murder and its affect on her family.

And for anyone curious as to why the book and movie is called The Lovely Bones, the title comes from the end of the novel:

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life."

I was surprised to find that I actually enjoyed watching the movie quite a bit. I really was not expecting much from the movie probably because I had never heard of the award winning book. (Yes, I don't read much.) Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised by the movie.