Heavenly

Watched Heavenly Creatures last night, directed by Peter Jackson and starring Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet. It is based on the real events of 1954 New Zealand, when 2 teenaged friends, Pauline (Lynskey) and Juliet (Winslet) plotted and executed a plan to kill Pauline's mother. The movie is excellent and showcases Jackson's god given talents as a director. Lynskey and Winslet have real chemistry and we can truly feel the intense friendship and private fantasy world unfolding before their eyes. A bond so strong, and a fantasy so real, that when Pauline's mother threatened it, they believed absolutely that murder was the only way to stay together.

The real life killers were caught and jailed for 10 years, before being released, on the condition that they never saw each other again. After the film was released in 1994, it re-awakened interest in this case, and the whereabouts of the 2 girls. Pauline has never been tracked, but Juliet has become a best selling author using the name Anne Perry. She understandably doesn't want to talk much about the events of 1954, but I'm most disappointed in the way she dismisses the event, brushing aside her friendship with Pauline. A friendship she was willing to kill for. I didn't want to read about her regret or being lead astray by Pauline. I want a heavily romanticised version of true love and friendship. I want her to reminisce on the good days and to wonder what her good friend Pauline is doing now. How can that rush of emotion be so easily dissipated and swept away? Sure she wants her private life to be private and sure she's moved on, but I WANT TO KNOW!