![]() ![]() Even when she is a young girl (we can also see the extent of this in the film Atonement too, when she was even younger than this!) she is a magnificent actor, truly owning up to her characters and making them come alive. Our main character of this film is Susie Salmon, played by Saoirse Ronan when she was only fourteen years old. Ironically, I scheduled this post way before the current Alice Sebold scandal, where the guy she accused of raping her was actually found to have not raped her, which makes this a timely post. While I can’t relate to the 1970s setting of the film, I can comment on the story, although I cannot relate at times. ![]() This brings a new perspective on how I’m watching this film. Now, years later as an adult, I have revisited the film, and find myself naturally comparing it to my memories of the book and now my experience of being a woman in a male-centric world. My point is that having a mother like this only amplified the fear I felt after reading the novel version of this book. metro will get you stabbed because once someone was stabbed. My mother is also a crime junkie and is obsessed with dangerous things (she is full on afraid of the city we live in, it’s a problem) and believes that even getting on, say, the Washington D.C. As someone who was younger than the main character, Susie, at the time of encountering this story originally, I was, of course, horrified. I had seen the movie before, sometime in my childhood, and I had read the book when I was ten years old. This is not the first time I’ve encountered The Lovely Bones.
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