Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 film, Directed by Peter Jackson. The film is centered on the questionable and dangerous relationship between two young girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme. The film is based around the real life diaries of Pauline, spilling her insight into the girl’s lives and minds. Peter Jackson portrays the girl’s deep and powerful friendship, which they believed was good enough to kill for. I believe that Jackson Effectively shows the intense friendship between Pauline and Juliet and how this led to murder, this is also my hypothesis and what I will be looking into my two critics on.
My first critic is Janet Maslin and her review; Heavenly Creatures: Fantasies and a Love that led to murder from the New York Times. The…show more content… Which led to the death of Mrs. Parker. Ebert believes that Jackson showed the crime being caused by a tragic flow of coincidences. The two girls were unstable enough on their own but when the two were brought together they complimented each other’s weaknesses, just enough to tip them over the edge. He writes that the two girls were fascinated by each other. For example, when Juliet first arrived at school Pauline was amazed, Juliet was like no one else she knew. Pauline also had status in Juliet's eyes, for living differently to her own small world. Ebert understood how Peter Jackson showed strength of the two girls friendship, Robert states that everything is "frightfully romantic" with the girls and the two were inseparable. Jackson shows this by showing everything with the two girls as over the top. Ebert uses the example of when Juliet contracts tuberculosis and they write each other long detailed letters about their lives in the fantasy world. The two girls believed everyone was beneath them, that they were better than everyone in one scene Juliet yells "Only the very best people can see the fourth world." Ebert also says Jackson makes the two girl’s fantasy world as real for us as it is for the girls, by utilizing in depth fantasy scenes. For example when Jackson…show more content… His interpretation was that everything played a part in the lead up to the murder. Proof of Jackson backing up Ebert's claim was the fact Jackson utilized Pauline’s diary from the real murder to narrate the film, and this diary had given Jackson the basis for the film. The diary gives a real view on the way the events unfolded in real life. An example of the unfortunate flow of coincidences from the film, is that both the girls deeply dislike their parents. Juliet because they are always absent in her life, and Pauline because her mother doesn't understand her. This coincidence bonds the girls together and ties it into killing Pauline’s mother because they have such a disliking to her, and she has such a disliking to the two girls closeness and tries to stop the two girls seeing each other. More proof of Ebert's claim is that throughout the film each event that happens in the friendship ties into something more. For example when Juliet contracts tuberculosis and stays in hospital for a long period of time, the two girls write each other letters acting as the characters from Borovnia. This then in turn fills the girls mind, and later on Pauline fantasizes of the two girls acting out the characters in the Fourth World. This dangerous sequence of events caused the two