History gives us an understanding of who we are, so we need to learn about it. Film can help give us an understanding of the events, and can bring it alive. The course of which "Heavenly Creatures" was directed by Peter Jackson, became very important, in the way Jackson was portraying real people and their raw feelings. This was always going to be hard. The challenge was to make the viewer sympathise with two murderers. "Heavenly Creatures" is a sensitive retelling of the historic events, as this film has portrayed more of a story of the girls' and not how the they murdered the mother. Critics are divided over whether the new look has been successful, particularly the use of fantasy and the limited point of view.
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Janet Maslin is unimpressed with the way Jackson told the story through the girls' point of view. Maslin implies Jackson got lost inside the girls' heads and forgot about the murder. Maslin feels that Jackson's attempt to analyse the schoolgirls' daydreams resulted with him a narrow view point. Maslin implies Jackson forced too much into fantasy while there was much more to the storyline he could of revealed. Maslin is especially critical of the subjective point of view when she thinks the film turned to peak madness when "Juliet's garden morphs magically into the "Fourth World" in which the girls think they belong". Maslin illustrates the murder was not a significant enough part of the story for Jackson as he was too caught up in the fantasy worlds the girls designed. David Rooney's view is quite different. He claims Jackson had the courage by enacting the point of view of the girls. Rooney suggests, although the girls had a lethal intention toward the mother, Jackson can see more of a story within the girls friendship. Furthermore Jackson could of focus on the evidence of the murder and made out the girls to be crazy villains, but he never wanted to make the girls sound like that. As a result Jackson uses their imagination to express their personalities where they have formed "Borovnia". Rooney thinks the murder was a small part of the story and there was more to know about the girls and Jackson thought he could capture that and for that reason Jackson effectively to make the characters with personalities he effectively changed the public perception of the
The use of fantasy in the …show more content…
Janet Maslin is unimpressed with the way Jackson told the story through the girls' point of view. Maslin implies Jackson got lost inside the girls' heads and forgot about the murder. Maslin feels that Jackson's attempt to analyse the schoolgirls' daydreams resulted with him a narrow view point. Maslin implies Jackson forced too much into fantasy while there was much more to the storyline he could of revealed. Maslin is especially critical of the subjective point of view when she thinks the film turned to peak madness when "Juliet's garden morphs magically into the "Fourth World" in which the girls think they belong". Maslin illustrates the murder was not a significant enough part of the story for Jackson as he was too caught up in the fantasy worlds the girls designed. David Rooney's view is quite different. He claims Jackson had the courage by enacting the point of view of the girls. Rooney suggests, although the girls had a lethal intention toward the mother, Jackson can see more of a story within the girls friendship. Furthermore Jackson could of focus on the evidence of the murder and made out the girls to be crazy villains, but he never wanted to make the girls sound like that. As a result Jackson uses their imagination to express their personalities where they have formed "Borovnia". Rooney thinks the murder was a small part of the story and there was more to know about the girls and Jackson thought he could capture that and for that reason Jackson effectively to make the characters with personalities he effectively changed the public perception of the