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 merely 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.

Watched last sunday, and it took me nearly a week to blog about it.

First read about it when ryan gosling was cast as the father but later got replaced by mark wahlberg, and i could understand why. he's much more suitable than the younger gosling.

then at last year's awards, some actors got nominated.

i really wanted to watch but was feeling nervous at the same time when i knew what the movie was about. alaa sedihlah nak tengok what happened to the girl, raped and brutally murdered. so i flipped between channels, oh i was waiting for rome final between nadal and the djoker. after a while, there i was stucked in front of tv, and the lovely bones.

an adaptation from a best-selling book of 2002 (hah, amek) with the same title, no wonder this movie is much anticipated and critics was quite harsh and very demanding.

both o.h and i kept guessing where have we seen the girl before? lah, atonement.

it's either you gonna love it or hate it. for me, thanks for not emphasizing on the brutal, gruesome parts.