Tragedy becomes Beauty

Themes of murder and suicide/sacrifice are always very personal, especially in terms of innocence and insecure characters. These themes have intruiged me and have personally become the basis of narratives for some of my favourite films; just for generally offering something unconventional within the progression of a character or narrative. An example of this would be 'The Lovely Bones' (2009) directed by Peter Jackson which centers itself around the cold blooded murder of a young teenage girl and her spirit self accepting the fact that she is no longer mortal. Suzie Salmon (the young girl) is percieved as a very innocent character that is brutally killed on the way home from school one day by her neighbour and the way in which her spirit learns to accept change and essentially leave earth for the afterlife creates some beautiful imagery throughout the film. Both the book and the film end with the author Alice Sebold's beautiful conclusion:

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence, the connections, sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent that happen after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it."

Despite the fact it concludes the film in such a beautiful way, it indicates more importantly the character's progression through the narrative and as a reader/audience we can understand that after the character's experience, she has lost her selfishness (of wanting to be mortal) and has embraced change and acknowledged the beauty that has become of a tragedy. I certainly wish to make my film not only a visually appealing project, but to sustain a message of a similar kind and encourage people to embrace change and find themselves in a crisis. I could possibly be looking into writing a script for the means of a voice-over to establish a similar effect on my audience.