Apparently this is the week for movies!
I wanted to finish this book PRIOR to seeing the movie...but that didn't happen. If you don't know the premise, Suzy Salmon is a 14 year old girl that gets murdered by a neighbor. She is then catapulted into an world in between earth and heaven. It was obviously hard to imagine a young girl dying, but the in-between world that Suzy is inhabiting is this amazing and crazy place. In this world, she is able to lead her family to discovering her murderer, but she's also able to deal with the fact that she is dead. She realizes she won't grow up, have a first kiss, see her syblings grow up, etc.
Peter Jackson directed this and did an amazing job. The acting, specially Suzy, is spectacular. The world that the director creates allowed me to emotionally deal with the fact that a young girl was murdered. She meets another young girl while in this world. It is beautiful, with lots of color...seemingly a place you'd want to go to!
All in all I am glad I saw the movie, but I didn't walk out of the theater "happy". Try to go see it!
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