When Briony Tallis, 13 years old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When h... er cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed when in fact it was a visitor to the estate.
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Rarely has a book sprung so vividly to life, but also worked so enthrallingly in pure movie terms, as with Atonement, Brit helmer Joe Wright???s smart, dazzlingly upholstered adaptation of Ian McEwan???s celebrated 2001 novel. Period yarn, largely set in 1930s and ???40s England, about an adolescent outburst of spite that destroys two lives and crumples a third, preserves much of the tome???s metaphysical depth and all of its emotional power. And as in Wright???s Pride & Prejudice, Keira Knightley -- echoed by co-thesp James McAvoy --proves every bit as magnetic as the divas of those classic mellers pic consciously references.
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An impossible adaptation?
In answer to the question as to whether Atonement could be adapted successfully for the screen the answer has to be...almost, but not quite. McEwan's brilliant novel with its themes of redemption and morality could never transfer perfectly but writer Christopher Hampton and director Joe Wright, give it a damn good try.
Starting in 1935 the film follows a doomed romance and how an over-imaginative girl's actions affect the lives of those around her. The film is stylish and intriguing but ultimately the novel's emotional gut-punch can't be delivered as successfully on film and its up to an uneasy coda to clarify everything for those who haven't read the novel. <...
Atonement, Ian McEwan's acclaimed 2001 novel, is a gripping story that is both brainy and shot through with complicated emotions.
The movie version feels like a stately, but watered down, episode of Masterpiece Theatre fused with The English Patient.
Those who loved the tragic tale of an imaginative adolescent whose actions lead to the unraveling of a family may be disappointed by the film's over-simplifications. Despite some strong performances, it seems a defanged version of the dark novel. Where McEwan's book is filled with descriptive passages and layers of subtext, the movie is more straightforward. It starts out powerfully but falters halfway ...
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Gripping story with believeable acting. Put off watching this film a while now, it had been recommended to me time and time again, glad i did finally. The reality of how both lives ended was so very sad & tragic. 9/10
this was a great movie , dont know why i waited so long to watch it. the way it was made was briliantl aswell as the scene at the beach is just one big long scene and it must have been hard to make it, kudos to the director
