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My favorite film. Director: Peter Jackson Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay), and 2 more credits » Stars: Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg and Saoirse Ronan | See full cast and crew .
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Director: • Peter Jackson • Writers: • Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay), and 2 more credits » • Stars: • Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg and Saoirse Ronan | See full cast and crew
The film is set in Pennsylvania in 1973 and begins to tell the touching and heart-wrenching story of a sweet, and strangely beautiful fourteen year old girl, Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan). This first part of the film is ephemeral and gauzy like the photographs Susie takes as an aspiring nature photographer. The crux of the film is not that Susie is murdered but the struggle and resolution of what happens after.
The entire film was thoughtfully made, from the perfect 1970′s styling and the attentive editing, to the wide and strange palette of pieces this film is composed of. For me, it was really Susan Sarandon.
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 primarily that 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.