The lovely Bones – Movie

The movie “The Lovely Bones” is a good movie in my opinion. I don't like to compare it with the book

because as a matter of fact, books are mostly always better than the movie. A movie is just not a book, and I think to like a movie where you have read the book before, you need to let go of the book for 2 hours, because this movie can't compete with it. There has been pretty much only 1 movie I thought was better than the book, and that was “Into the wild”, and the reason for that was that I didn't like the way the story was told. That being said, I liked it.

It had good animations and displayed most of the story with some gaps, but not a lot of changing. The actors have been well chosen and played some good roles. The storyline is easy to understand, even if you hadn't read the book, so there is no trouble in watching this and not understanding it. It can make you cry, in my case it did, and has a lot of emotions. The way of showing her heaven was pretty accurate of how most people would think of it, which I thought was a good idea. It had beautiful landscapes and also enjoyable music that fits and makes you feel with the story. The actor of the murderer has been well made and you can really see what for a creepy and in order kind of guy he is. It just makes you think “ why does no one see it is him?” but they just can't figure it out.

Just the way it has been made was really something I enjoyed, it's a lovely fiction story made to a decent movie, but if you're someone who is judging the movie constantly with the book, then you only ruin it for yourself.  

The Lovely Bones - The Book

This is going to be my first book review on here. Next will be the movie.

This is the review of the book 'The lovely bones', written by Alice Sebold. I mostly liked the book because of the way she starts, the beginning catches the readers attention. She starts off with Susie Salmon dying within the first pages, which makes you actually think and wonder how the story can possibly continue. And as I continued reading the book, it just got more and more complex, showing how the family felt about their daughter being murdered. It shows you that the family members don't have as easy of a time getting over the loss of loved one as it's usually shown in stories, with death being not a big issue of life's being. I really enjoyed reading that part because it makes you feel with the family.
Another part would be Susie seeing and actually telling the whole story while watching earth after she died. It's a good thing to do, in my opinion, because then you can actually know how she thinks about everything and if she likes the way things go on.
Also, the way that you switch from her heaven and then to earth a few times makes the story more interesting, instead of just having the story only about her watching earth or her only being in heaven. Also, that it switches back and forth at random times instead of having the earth story being told first and the time she spends in her own heaven being told after. 

Overall I really enjoyed it and recommend it for eveyone who loves fiction and heartbreaking stories. If you're a person who is into extreme fantasy then this might not be the right thing, as you might not be able to enjoy it as much. Otherwise it's a great story with a lot of emotions and thoughts about life after death. 

Edited by Carrie Unger 

Credit:  Picture  

 

Psychology - Prologue

Psychology's Roots 
First of all we need to see Psychology as a science. The study of behavior ( anything an organism does) and mental process ( experiences).
The roots of Psychology go far back in History to Asia, China, the Middle East and Europe. Many people in those regions wondered about humans and tried to understand the human nature, so they looked carefully at our bodies and how our mind works in relationship with it. Buddha and Confucius focused over 2000 years ago on power and origin of ideas. The ancient Hebrews, Socrate, his student Plato, and Plato's student Aristotle have thought about whether mind and body are connected or distinct, or whether human ideas are innate or results from experiences.
Rene` Descartes and John Locke reengaged in the 1600s, aspects of those ancient debates and Locke coined his famous description of the mind as a "white paper".
Empiricism is the view that pretty much knowledge comes from experiences and that science should rely on observations and experimentation which have been the ideas of Francis Bacon and Locke.
Psychology was born in the 1800's in Leipzig, Germany by Wilhelm Wundt which he did by doing the first real experiment.
Edward Bradford Titchner tried to do more experiments and through that attempt to understand now mental and behavioral processes help us to adapt, survive and flourish.
William James and other functionalist tried to explain why we do what we do.
Psychology was a "science of mental life" until the 1920s. John B. Watson and F.B. Skinner, which were 2 American behaviorist, changed the focus of Psychology to the study of observable behavior. It was in the 1960s when humanistic psychologists draw attention to the importance of environmental influences, personal growth, and the needs for love and acceptance. Also the focus of psychology's interest has been refocused by the cognitive revolution to mental processes, with special attention to perception, information processing, and memory. Todays Psychology views itself a a "science of behavior and mental process" which cognitive neuroscientists are trying to tell us.

Contemporary Psychology
The big debate in Psychology is whether nature (view of Plato and Descartes, gene) or nurture ( view of Aristotle and Locke, all other influences, from conception to death) was more important. Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism - the principle of natural selection - by which nature selects chance variations that enable organism to survive and reproduce in particular environments. Now they believe that every psychological event is simultaneously an biological event.
The biospsychosocial has  3 level of analyses, the biological, the psychological, and the social-cultural level. There are many different perspectives of how psychologists study human behaviors and mental processes ( including the neuroscientific, evolutionary, behavior genetics, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive and social - cultural perspective)
Psychology's subfields encompass basic research ( often done by biological, development, cognitive, personality, and social psychologists), applied research ( sometimes conducted by industrial/organizational psychologists), and clinical application ( the work of counseling and clinical psychologists).
Clinical psychologists study, asses, and treat ( with psychotherapy) people with psychological disorders, psychiatrists also study, asses, and treat people with disorders, but they are medical doctors who can prescribe medical as well as offer psychotherapy.

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So that would be it. I might as well put a little dictionary on those words up there soon so you can understand the concept better, unless you know all these words anyways. If you have any questions in this topic then comment and I'll respond as soon as I can.  I'm going to put up an review on every unit i'm going to read, which is really exciting. I hope you're interested!

Credit: Picture, Wilhelm Wundt

Cocteau Twins - Alice

The Lovely Bones 

So this is the music for the movie The lovely bones. It sucks that you just can't only upload audio on Blogspot so I had to make a video to share the song. But anyways this is a lovely song and I think it fits to the story. Enjoy!

This is the list of Books I'm going to read and you'll probably see a feedback on

• Watership down
• A  long way gone
• Speak
• The compass rose
• The perks of being a Wallflower
• Wuthering Heights
• Ishmael
• Holy the Firm
• Franny and Zooey 
• Lavinia 
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Huckleberry Finn (reread)
• Dr. Faustus 
• The Temples 
• Hamlet 
• Waiting for Godot 
• The picture of Dorian Gray
• Heart of Darkness
• The Catcher in the rye
• The three Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus the king, Oedipus at colonus)
• Psychology (Yes I will post things about this book on here more often)
• The lovely Bones (Just finished reading, Feedback soon) 
• and more but I haven't decided about the rest yet
• When something is crossed out it means I've read it