The Lovely Bones: Hitchcock Meets Dali In PurgatoryS  The man
who managed to film Lord Of The Rings has chosen to adapt
introspective afterlife novel The Lovely Bones, and once again
he's taken some liberties. But the result is a surprisingly
seamless fusion of Hitchcock and Salvador Dali.  As with LOTR,
Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's Bones is the sum of
its aesthetic choices, times the auteur's vision. Jackson brings
a vibrant surrealism and suspense to the adaptation, and it says
a lot that he chose Brian Eno to do the music for it. Spoilers
below.  The Lovely Bones is the story of young Susie Salmon,
who's murdered by a serial killer, and who then observes the
aftermath as a ghost. A girl in her early teens, Susie is
compellingly played by the luminous Saoirse Ronan. She observes
the grief of her family, and their floundering responses as the
police consider every possible suspect but the right one; she
experiences an afterlife that seems a strangely logical mix of
its own rules and her inter