IвЂ™m sure the parents felt bad enough to begin with, they donвЂ™t need to think that itвЂ™s their fault Susie didnвЂ™t come home. Assuming a kid ran away seems pretty shitty, because saying they ran away due to problems at home assigns a lot of blame onto the parents, which in SusieвЂ™s case is extra sad because she seems to have really nice parents and a loving family. But she didnвЂ™t run away, and the parents insist she would never do that. ThatвЂ™s one of the frustrating things about the movie: the detective asks the parents if Susie has ever run away before, or if there are problems at home that would cause her to run away. Kids really do go missing, and not just the runaways, the ones that are taken. Half a million children are reported missing in the US every year. It is about something that really happens. And yet, so jarringly real at the same time. It has made-up characters, a fantastical after-life, and Susie is a ghost. You want the villain to be caught so badly, and itвЂ™s so obvious to you, the viewer, that you just wish the family could know it was their neighbor all along. Harvey couldвЂ™ve been caught, like when the detective was in his house and if he had just looked down he wouldвЂ™ve seen SusieвЂ™s charm bracelet. Not to mention all the opportunities when Mr. So many moments where youвЂ™re just tense, hoping so much that theyвЂ™ll figure it out. There are so many moments in this movie when you could practically scream at the screen. Just these little things she did to let her family know she was around. Like the candle flame in the window, or kissing her brother on the cheek. The only good moments are when Susie occasionally interacts with the living world and gives her family signs that sheвЂ™s there. To see her mom leave, or her dad become obsessive about finding the person responsible, or seeing her sister become detached, all these things are justвЂ¦ tragic. Watching Susie watch her family fall apart after losing her was sad enough as it is, but to see her constantly checking in on Ray, the boy she liked, was the sad little cherry on top of the worldвЂ™s saddest sundae. Her body was back in the cellar with her murderer, and she was dead. She didnвЂ™t get murdered after all! But that wasnвЂ™t what really happened. When she made it out and took off running, I was ecstatic. It was so messed up that the movie led us to believe for a moment that she got away. But those two things made it all the easier for him to murder her. A cruel, evil man killed her, not her naivety. The trap was set up specifically in a way that involved him tricking her, because he knew sheвЂ™d fall for it, because she was a sweet, unsuspecting child.Дid SusieвЂ™s innocence get her killed? No. And itвЂ™s because he banked on her innocence, her naivety. He used just the right words of manipulation to goad her into walking straight into her grave. Harvey, the neighbor that murdered her, knew exactly all the right things to say to lure Susie into his trap. I would say it was unexpected, but SusieвЂ™s narration over the beginning says that she was murdered, so itвЂ™s not like it was a shock. I was so happy for her!ДЄnd then she immediately died right after. He even asked her on a date, more or less. My fourteen-year-old heart, and even my twenty-two-year-old heart, burst with joy for Susie when Ray walked up, asked her about Shakespeare, and told her sheвЂ™s beautiful. And damn did that movie cast a really, really cute senior guy for Susie to like. Like: That feeling of having a crush on a super cute senior guy that you think is too cool for you. It just really hit different because I could relate to her in so many ways, even if she was a teen in the early seventies and I was a teen in the mid 2000s.

I think this had a lot to do with how sad I found the movie. This was the same age as the main character, Susie Salmon. The first time I watched The Lovely Bones, I was fourteen. ItвЂ™s about a teenage girl that gets murdered by her next door neighbor, and watches her family grieve as a ghost. In case you havenвЂ™t seen it/donвЂ™t know what itвЂ™s about, The Lovely Bones is a Peter Jackson-directed film from 2009. I put off watching this movie for a whole month because itвЂ™s just so sad.Д«efore we go any further, here is your OFFICIAL SPOILER WARNING. The Lovely Bones, aka the saddest movie of all time, is last on this list, and much further spaced apart than the other three, because I didnвЂ™t want to watch it again. The Four Movies That Have Made Me Ugly Cry, Part 4: The Lovely Bones

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