In my heaven
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In my heaven |
| Original title | The lovely bones |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 135 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Jackson |
| script |
Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson |
| production | Peter Jackson Carolynne Cunningham Fran Walsh Aimee Peyronnet |
| music | Brian Eno |
| camera | Andrew Lesnie |
| cut | Jabez Olssen |
| occupation | |
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The Lovely Bones (AKA The Lovely Bones ) is an American fantasy - film drama of director Peter Jackson from the year 2009 . The script is based on the novel of the same name by Alice Sebold . The film opened in German cinemas on February 18, 2010.
action
14-year-old Susie Salmon lived in Norristown with her parents Jack and Abigail, her sister Lindsey and her brother Buckley in the 1970s . One day her brother chokes in the garden and threatens to suffocate. Susie immediately drives him to the hospital by car. Nothing great has happened to your brother and he is recovering quickly. Her grandmother Lynn tells her that in the Buddhist religion someone who has saved a life will have a long and happy life himself. After school, Ray, a boy Susie likes very much, gives her a note. On the way home, which leads across a cornfield, a gust of wind blows the note away, and it lands right at the feet of her neighbor George Harvey. He tries unsuccessfully to catch the note and then lures Susie into an underground bunker under an excuse. Susie gets scared and wants to leave the bunker, but Harvey won't let her. She tries to escape using a ladder. When he tries to take her by the legs, she hits him in the face with her elbow and runs away.
Meanwhile, Susie's parents start looking for her. Susie runs home. On the way she runs past Ruth, who also finds Ray's note. At home, Susie finds the house empty. She hears her mother talking and goes upstairs. There, however, she finds Harvey in the bathtub. Everywhere she sees only clothes and blood soiled with earth, her bracelet hangs on the sink. She realizes that Harvey killed her.
The police discover Susie's hat half buried in the field. A great deal of blood is found when the collapsed bunker is examined and the fact that Susie was murdered is confirmed. However, her body is not found. Detective Fenerman questions the neighbors, and Susie's father Jack begins an investigation. Harvey is also questioned by the police; However, there is no suspicion against Harvey. Her brother Buckley, meanwhile, thinks he sees Susie in the intermediate world, and her father also believes he senses her presence.
In the intermediate world, Susie meets a girl who calls herself Holly Golightly . They become friends and Holly invites Susie to come with her. However, she wants to stay with her family. Holly tells Susie that she has to stop watching her family, but Susie can't tear herself away.
Jack Salmon doesn't stop looking for a culprit, seemingly indiscriminately blaming people he believes are suspicious. He drives his wife to the edge of madness, as she is constantly reminded of the death of her daughter. When she can no longer withstand the pressure, she tries to escape from her feelings by leaving her family and taking a job on a distant orchard. From there, however, she writes regularly to her daughter Lindsey.
Meanwhile, the "emptiness" is growing again in Harvey, which leads him to look for a new victim. He chose Lindsey because she has distrusted him for a long time. Lindsey feels rightly being watched, but has nothing concrete in hand. Harvey begins planning the deed and builds a wooden hunting hideout. Jack helps him out of a feeling and realizes based on a message from Susie that it was actually Harvey who killed Susie.
Shortly afterwards, Jack Salmon, armed with a baseball bat, follows Harvey into a cornfield at night. There Jack stumbles upon Susie's girlfriend Clarissa and her boyfriend Brian. Brian believes Jack was chasing them and beats him up so he has to be taken to the hospital, seriously injured.
Susie, who was watching her father, is shocked. She realizes that it is her will that urges her father to find the killer and that prevents her family from letting go of her. In her heaven she walks through a door that she has always been afraid of. Behind this, she learns that there are other victims, all of whom were killed by Harvey, and that Holly is one of them. She sees that Harvey has hidden her own body in a safe in his basement.
Jack Salmon and his daughter Lindsey now agree on their suspicion that Harvey killed Susie. Lindsey breaks into Harvey's house in search of evidence. She finds a notebook under a loose floorboard on the bedroom floor. In it, Lindsey discovers Susie's hair, drawings and a description of the bunker and the act itself. At that moment, however, Harvey returns home. He catches Lindsey in his house, and she just manages to escape through a window. She runs home with the notebook under her arm. There she meets her mother, who has finally returned. Lindsey gives the notebook to her grandmother, who calls the police. Harvey is now preparing his escape and drives the safe to a hole in the mouth , which is used as a garbage dump.
Ruth watches Harvey drag the safe containing Susie's body to the throat. Suddenly she sees Susie in the window, who goes into her body, and passes out. Ray rushes to Ruth's aid and realizes it's Susie. Ray and Susie kiss. Then Susie returns to her heaven. Harvey meanwhile dumps the safe unhindered in the hole, which is filled with earth shortly afterwards.
Some time later, in winter, Susie watches Harvey approach a young woman outside a restaurant and try to lure her into his car. However, the woman firmly rejects him. A large icicle falls and hits Harvey on the shoulder. He trips, falls backwards over a cliff, and dies.
Susie sees that Lindsey and her boyfriend Samuel are getting married and are expecting a child. She sees that her mother can re-enter her room and that her family is slowly getting over the grief. The film ends with Susie wishing everyone a long and happy life.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Susie Salmon | Evelyn Lennon (child)
Saoirse Ronan (teenager) |
Stella Sommerfeld (teenager) |
| Jack Salmon | Mark Wahlberg | Oliver Mink |
| Abigail Salmon | Rachel Weisz | Claudia Lössl |
| George Harvey | Stanley Tucci | Jacques Breuer |
| Grandma Lynn | Susan Sarandon | Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif |
| Brian Nelson | Jake Abel | Patrick Roche |
| Lindsey Salmon | Rose McIver | Maren Rainer |
| Holly | Nikki SooHoo | Gabrielle Pietermann |
| Ray Singh | Reece Ritchie | Tim Schwarzmaier |
| Clarissa | Amanda Michalka | Katharina Iacobescu |
| Len Fenerman | Michael Imperioli | Torben Liebrecht |
| Caden | Thomas McCarthy | |
| Ruth | Carolyn Dando | Malika Bayerwaltes |
| Samuel Heckler | Andrew James Allen | |
| Mrs. Singh | Anna Georges | |
| Flora Hernandez | Stefania Owen | |
| Buckley Salmon | Christian Thomas Ashdale | Lenny Peteanu |
Reviews
"Jackson's manipulative power is impressive, but it is largely empty emotions that he sells in advertising aesthetics. This is a shame above all because he has an abundance of very capable mimes who try with all their might to give their roles a face. [...] If you take the film apart from the scene, you get a chain of accurately composed elements that are immediately able to create a mood, because in my heaven , apart from the exuberant effects, craftsmanship is successful. Its keynote, however, is similar to that of an esoteric seminar. "
"With this moving mix of suspense, drama and fantastic poetry, Peter Jackson has succeeded in creating a small masterpiece with 'In my Heaven'."
“An exciting, straightforward but thoroughly sensitive story, opulent digital magic in the intermediate world, a tone that allows humor and hope despite the gloom, and a strong ensemble in which Saoirse Ronan as Susie her great promise, which was rewarded with an Oscar nomination out of 'apology', redeems. "
“Instead of focusing on the difficulties of saying goodbye and on the development of the characters, as Alice Sebold does in the literary original of the same name (2002), Jackson turns the family drama into a fantasy thriller that constantly escapes into action and effects when it could get complicated and uncomfortable between people, with abrupt changes in tone between comedy, sentiment and tension. "
“With the focus on the fairytale-like paradise of the kingdom of heaven, the grief of the family on earth becomes less important; Jackson is content with placing the search for the murderer in the foreground, which for the viewer has already dissolved at the beginning of the trailer. The special feature of the novel, which outlines the breakup of a once happy family, is thus lost, and the visual cannot compensate for it. "
"Mixture of family drama and mystery thriller, which is convincing in the passages based on the thriller genre, while it fails in dealing with death and the clichéd portrayal of the otherworldly world, which is somewhere between kitsch and surrealism."
Awards and nominations
| price | category | Nominated | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Globe Awards 2010 | Best supporting actor | Stanley Tucci | nomination |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards 2010 | Best supporting actor | ||
| 2009 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best supporting actor | ||
| Best art direction | In my heaven | ||
| 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Young Actor | Saoirse Ronan | Won |
| Best main actress | nomination | ||
| Best supporting actor | Stanley Tucci | ||
| Best art direction | In my heaven | ||
| Best camera | |||
| Best visual effects | |||
| British Academy Film Awards 2010 | Best main actress | Saoirse Ronan | |
| Best supporting actor | Stanley Tucci | ||
| Academy Awards 2010 | Best supporting actor |
Locations
- The beach scenes were filmed on Wharariki Beach on New Zealand's South Island. The distinctive silhouette of the Archway Islands can be recognized in the photos on the official film page.
Others
- In one scene, Susie Salmon can be seen in a bookstore; On the pane in the foreground is an advertising poster for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books, which Peter Jackson also directed.
- Director Peter Jackson can be seen in the Kodak Photo Shop for a brief moment. He is holding a film camera in his hand.
- In the film, the song Song to the Siren is used in the version of This Mortal Coil .
- The English rock band Maybeshewill named their 2011 album after the final line of the film: I was here for a moment, then I was gone .
Web links
- Official website
- The Lovely Bones in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Lovely Bones at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Lovely Bones at Metacritic (English)
- In my heaven in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate (PDF; 81 kB) from the FSK
- ↑ Age rating for In my Heaven . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ In my heaven in the German dubbing index
- ↑ In my heaven on schnitt.de, accessed on March 15, 2010.
- ↑ In my heaven on cinema.de, accessed on February 3, 2010.
- ↑ In my heaven on kino.de, accessed on February 3, 2010
- ↑ In my heaven on critic.de, accessed on February 17, 2010.
- ↑ Masterpiece or kitsch in Peter Jackson's new film? on moviepilot.de , accessed on February 18, 2010.
- ↑ In my heaven in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed February 18, 2010.
- ↑ HFPA News: The 67th annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations . In: GoldenGlobes.org . December 15, 2009. Archived from the original on December 15, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ↑ Screen Actor Guild Awards: Nominations announced for the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards . In: SAGAwards.com . December 17, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ↑ a b The Lovely Bones: Awards . In: IMDb.com . Retrieved February 3, 2010.
