In the book, he disposes of the safe mere days after having killed Susie. Harvey keeping the safe until much later raises some decent questions about the police searching.We don't get confirmation if she still gets to in the film. Susie being able to briefly possess Ruth to have a moment with Ray is explained in the book as an exchange Ruth gets to swap places with Susie and experience the In-Between while Susie is on Earth.The book also clarifies that Susie doesn't know if Buckley can sense she's in the In-Between or is just making it up.This is eliminated from the film, but the icicle does still foreshadow how Mr Harvey meets his end. The significance of the icicle comes from a sequence in the book, where Susie describes it as the perfect murder weapon (because it melts away).While watching over her family and the way they deal with grief over her missing body as well as Ruth and her burgeoning love story with the boy she never got to kiss, Susie meets other victims of Harvey in the afterlife, which can morph into a happy paradise as she wishes. Harvey grabs her and the scene fades until she is seen rushing past her alarmed classmate Ruth Connors, seemingly fleeing Harvey's den, only to discover that she's actually in the afterlife.Īfter seeing the bloody bathroom and her bracelet hanging on the sink faucet, Susie realizes she never escaped the underground den and Harvey murdered her. Inside, Susie grows uncomfortable and attempts to leave. One day though, she runs into her creepy neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an underground 'kid's hideout' he has built. In 1973, life is kind to Susie Salmon, a sweet and helpful 14-year-old high school freshman who dreams of becoming a photographer. It stars Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, and Susan Sarandon. The Lovely Bones is the 2009 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Peter Jackson.

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