The Lovely Bones

Film: The Lovely Bones

Genre: Drama and suspens

Director: Peter Jackson

Actors: Saorse Ronon, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg and George Harvey

Review:

The Lovely Bones (2009) is a film, which is an adaptation of the novel Lovely bones, which was written by Alice Sebold. The film was directed by Peter Jackson. The stars of the movie are Saorse Ronon as Susie Salmon, Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg as Susie´s parents and George Harvey as the murderer. It is a drama and suspense film.

Susie Salmon is a teenager, who has crush on a classmate of her school. When he asked her out for Saturday, she accepted and went to her house. While she was walking, she found with her neighbor, who
coaxes her into an underground den, where he, finally, killed her. The police and her family started to investigate Susie's disappearance. Susie from the heaven guides them to find the guilty.

The movie´s story was written by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. They did it great. They mixed the suspens and the drama in the story, they get that people were sad for moments, like when susie´s father cry for her dead, and have scared in other, like when her sister could be caught by the murder.

The movie has very good performances, specially, Saorse Ronon´s acting. In spite of Saorse is a very young actress, she could make an excellent and believable performance as the protagonist of the movie. Ronon won a lot of awards for her acting, like 7th Irish Film and Television Awards, 36th Saturn Awards and 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards.

Lovely Bones is an excellent movie, I loved the mix of suspend and drama in it so I recommend this film to people, who love drama films, or if you want to be scared and be moved.

Student name: Lucila Mazzoccone

Class: 5° Cont

The Number 23

Book/ Film: Number 23

Genre: Thriller

Author/ Director: Joel Schumacher

Characters/ Actors: Jim Carrey Virginia Madsen Logan Lerman

Number 23 (2007) is a film, which was directed by Joel Schumacher. The stars of the film are Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow, Virginia Madsen as Agatha Sparrow and Logan Lerman as Robin Sparrow. It is a thriller.

On the birthday of Walter Sparrow, his wife, Agatha Sparrow, gave him a book about a story related with the number 23, like a present. While he was reading the book, he started to see the number 23 everywhere, and he started to get exasperated. And he started to look for the reason of it.

One of the characteristics of a thriller is generating intrigue. And this film´s story generates a lot of intrigue, and the surprising acting of Jim Carrey helps to get it. Jim Carrey’s acting is surprising because it was the first time he acted in a thriller. In spite of this, his acting was great and believable.

The music, which was written by Harry Gregson – Williams, helps to get intrigue too. He put the correct music and silence in each moment. So it did not break the intrigue’s atmosphere.

The story is very well done, because it has all the necessary elements for a great thriller, for example the music, effects and the stars did an excellent acting. So it is a good film to see with your friends.

Student name: Lucila Mazzoccone

Class: 5to C