Review – Heavenly Creatures

Right on the brink between his early career as a crapslinger and his later career as an epic hack, director Peter Jackson managed to make two movies that are actually worth a look. One is The Frighteners, and this is the other one. Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet are the highlights of this tale of two teenage girls who get lost in their own intricately-designed fantasy world. As their commitment to each other and their imaginary world intensifies, they become less and less able to cope with reality. So when circumstances appear certain to separate them, the only solution they can come up with is to kill one of their mothers. Jackson does a superior job of coming up with visuals that create a sharp contrast between fantasy and reality that keeps the two united and divided at the same time. Worth seeing