to be slightly sickened by anyone who wants to see the movie of The Lovely Bones?

[Buckets]

I mean really, why would anyone want to see that?

Is that the book where a child is abducted, abused & murdered and then hidden?

The violence sets the story up but is not the majority of the story IIRC.

The story is about the way the parents handle it afterwards and about how the child goes forward in death.

It's not a feel good story but it makes you think.

Schindler's List wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs and neither was Saving Private Ryan. Still worthy films and I wouldn't consider the audiences who watched them depraved in any way.

YANBU, It is a horrible, horrible book imo!!

can't the same be said for so many films.

I look at horror films and even the descriptions turn my stomach.

Or any of the catstrophe movies

or war films that glamourise war

I could go on and on

why would anyone make it into a movie?

oh yes, was best seller.

didn't take to that book much

btw YANBU

is it worse than reading the novel? or any other book / film about violence , abuse or rape?

like The Accused? that was hardly a walk in the park, or entertainment, per se, but an important and compelling film IMO

YABU and i agree with Doodle and Noonki

sorry noonki, i thought you meant the same as i did !

I think that the fact you have focussed more on the initial violence rather than the huge emotional aftermath says more about you than it does about the people who would go and see the film.

what Doodle said.

And I will go and see the film as I thought it was an important book about death.

YABU. Personally, I prefer reading the original book rather than seeing the movie, but the book I thought was very well written and thought-provoking. I can't quite see how it could be translated onto the big screen in a way that would do justice to the subject, but surely people will judge that if they've read the book and then seen the film.

Lots of films and books shock and provoke the audience. 'Hotel Rwanda' wasn't exactly cheerful. Nor was 'Seven'.

There are some weird books about too. 'The Naked Lunch' is one that I've found truly bizarre.

Nonetheless, why should you be sickened by anyone going to see that film in particular?

Hmm, odd thought that all things violent or unpleasant should not be looked at or talked about.

I agree with coldtits.

why would anyone want to read, for instance , those real life stories of horribly abused and neglected children, like ' a child called it' ?

I didn't like this book. It told me nothing about death at all.

I thought it was a beautiful, thought- provoking book and in a strange way rather life-afirming.

It was hardly gratuitous in any way, what are your objections?

I thought it was a fascinating book.

Not sure I'd see the film, because I prefer my own mind's eye interpretation of books.

What is your objection to it?

Is it being made into a film? Oh good because I found the book really hard to get into - my mind always wonders when reading

don't think it's in anyway in the same category as those 'misery porn' books that now have their own section in whsmiths.

It's a book about trauma and loss but told from a very unusual perspective and in that way it's fascinating and affecting. I liked the way that it didn't centre at all on the perpetrator being caught (frustrating though that was), rather on the after effects of such a terrible crime on a family. I loved it and would be tempted to see the film just to see how it has 'translated'.

Both Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan wree based on historical fact.

Lovely bones is pure fiction. And was a crap read. Could not believe how popular it was - was a struggle to read through to the end. Utter tripe (so no I won't be wastign my money on this).

I haven't seen the film, but I am glad I read the book.

In the book, I found Susie's violent end less graphic and disturbing than the moment her fleeing 'soul' hits Ruth - that one moment stuck with me and hurt.

I think it's a mistake to write off the book/film as prurient, when in fact I think the book, particularly, allows you to consider the worst of possible outcomes and think about them rationally.

Far better than misery memoirs, and not to be slated, imo.

Agree with blackeyeddogstar - it tells me nothing about death, as most of it set in a made-up 'heaven' that the murdered girl inhabits. I can't quite put my finger on why, but that is what sickens me about it.

Ah - good to see I'm solidly with the majority!

It was a good book; and as oovavu says certainly not miserey porn.

I would be interested to see the film.

Not based on fact? It was part of the author's processing of her own rape.

And the title refers to the sinews of partial recovery that draw the family imperfectly together despite the tragedy, eventually.

YABU

i personally thought it was a moving and sensitively handled book

the subject matter is no more shocking than lots of things of the telly (rightly or wrongly)

there was an episode of Eastenders before Xmas where a man was buried alive - i thought that was fairly distasteful