Saturday, March 20, 2010

#18: The mixture of genres and feelings-The Lovely Bones

I'm back from my trip to the East, and not much to elaborate on that.

Instead, I feel like talking about the things happened before the trip happened.

From the post earlier, I wrote that I had gone to watch a show with a preview pass.

Well, thanks to the neighbour two doors away, who gave me and my sister two preview passes (at quite a last minute-the show starts at 9 and they gave at near 8), I was able to watch a hidden decent film (well, is not that I can't afford a Super Wednesday rate, but I might not watch because it does not have much publicity).

Well, this film is generally a mixture of genres, covering family drama, murder mystery, and the supernatural and afterlife. And this film is quite well potrayed under the direction of the triology Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. For people who don't like too much violence, it has the enough dosage of softness, not too much. For people who don't like too much softness, it has the enough amount of thrill, not too much also (but it might not be sufficient for some...).

There are heart-thomping moments, and those moments are truly filled with anxiety, especially the scene where the murder victim's sister broke into the antagonist's house, walked into the owner's bedroom, and the owner of the house came back at the same moment. (I'm not going to describe further, do go and watch to see what I meant.)

It would still fall short when comparing to the great (commercialised) film Avatar, but its themes are well deserved for some deep thinking.

That's all for my first ever film review I ever made.

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