This is how the story started, like a fluent and beautiful prose poem, slowly rendered with the rising piano...
With the sound of the typewriter, the camera zoomed in to a girl's room, a face The freckled teen completed her first screenplay.
What can't go back is that summer afternoon, when all the sins are hidden in that neglected summer afternoon - the scorching bees, the clear pool water, the secretly fermented love, and the loneliness, the loneliness and the jealous girl .
Cecilia and Robbie admire each other, but stubbornly seldom speak. That afternoon, they had an argument by the sink, and Robbie ripped off one of the handles of the ancient vase, which fell into the water. Cecilia took off her clothes angrily and jumped into the pool. Robbie turned away and clenched his hands until they turned white. Briony saw this scene from a distance through the glass window. Literary imagination combined with the 13-year-old's worldview leads her to believe that Robbie is a pornographer who is bullying her sister. The misunderstanding gradually deepens, until Briony catches her sister and Robbie in the library before the dinner, skin-to-skin.
What I can't go back to is that summer, no one saw the cry in my heart, and no one could forgive.
So in a flash, all the hot and lingering love and hatred were completely broken-that
night, a case of raping a girl happened to happen in the manor. Briony saw the back of the runaway, and she announced to the family that I knew it was Robbie. The sheriff asked two very professional questions: "Did you know or did you see it"? She said, I see.
The sheriff asked again, "Is it like seeing me now"? The little girl said firmly, yes,
no one, yes, no one told the young girl that the summer afternoon that was too far away to reach eventually involved the gloomy years of her life that could not be redeemed.
And the camera just flashed, and four years of time passed by...
Robbie was imprisoned for three years and sent to war, eventually dying of sepsis in July 1940, while Cecilia died quietly in October 1940. Two people who originally wanted to be in love were never able to get together because of a child's fault. The encounter in a coffee shop during World War II became an eternal memory for the lovers. This mistake has left a very deep mark in Briony's heart, and she has spent her whole life atonement for this mistake. The
film is an alternate time line, reality and imagination (mainly Briony's imagination) are narrated, and
the soundtrack of the film is absolutely The unique, typewriter-backed soundtrack pounded incessantly, giving the impression that a conspiracy was about to be born. The background music of World War II is also sensational and powerful, and there is no lack of grandeur in the sensationalism, which gives the film a good epochal character.
There are many places in the film that highlight the historical background of the story. The war news at that time was cut into the film, which made "Atonement" have a strong social background and shaped a very real society, a big environment, a big The atmosphere, the big interpersonal relationship and a big background of the era are real, and then make it real through some detailed descriptions, so that the audience can identify with this era, so the story that happens in this background has a good foothold , "Atonement" is quite successful at this point.
The picture of the film is quite beautiful, the push shots, long shots, and color matching are all first-class. Joy Wright continues his 2005 edition of Pride and Prejudice with the oily painting style that is evident in the first half of the film, which depicts an English country house in the 1930s. This sophistication is even shown in the 5-minute long shot of the evacuation at Dunkirk that embodies the brutality and desperation of World War II. The endless picture depicts the hopeless and terrifying atmosphere of the entire war, but you can't feel a trace of blood and horror to stimulate your eyeballs. And the dramatic ending deepens the tragic intensity of the play
In the film, we can see a lot of flashbacks, and each flashback has a clear interpretation of the previous one. The director sets the suspense through the main narration, and then gives the answer through flashback, thus promoting the development of the entire film's storyline. But this kind of narrative method feels extremely unnatural at the beginning. In the first 20 minutes, it is completely unclear what the plot is going to talk about. With the development of the plot, the puzzles began to be uncovered continuously, and the understanding of the plot became more in-depth. At the end, it gave the audience a blow to the head. It turned out that the plot of the reunion of the two people in the front was completely fabricated by Briony, and the story instantly turned into a poignant love tragedy!
This beautiful and sad love is the main tone of the film. The love between Robbie and Sicilia is a portrayal of an era. Under the shackles of morality and reason, they keep hiding their love in their hearts, ignoring each other on the surface, and even excluding each other. The other party, but this is just a disguise to cover up love, how can real love be concealed, but ah, this cursed lover, in the most negative background of World War II, love can obviously only be a picture hidden in the arms. The director used a long shot to describe every scene on the beach, the shot of the horse, the soldiers singing praises, the broken carousel, the towering Ferris wheel, and more of the frustrated faces - the shot is so smooth. It's unimaginable. Later, in the hospital scene, the tragic performance of the battlefield was not shot and shot, the mutilated body, the painful moan, and even the exposed brain-compared with these, talking about love is more firm and persistent. Love crumbled along with the whole world, and a few months later Nurse Cecilia was in a field hospital, engulfed by the flood.
If the confession was to people, but they were gone, you would feel like you were living in the abyss—because of you No chance again. Briony, I can't understand your mood at that time. You don't allow yourself to be suppressed by happiness. There are complex emotions such as fear, timidity and pain in your eyes. We can understand how you are living by looking at one expression. As soon as the camera turns, it is you in your old age. Your eyes are quite firm and brave, and you can finally smile so calmly. You've been guilt-ridden your whole life, and I don't think there's anything more liberating than telling the truth.
This is the redemption of Briony's life, the inner restlessness, entanglement, pain, and release from telling the truth, but whose fault is this? Can't you blame anyone, the thirteen-year-old girl with freckles on her face? This precocious girl's infatuation with Robbie seems to be a crimson mood that every girl will experience in adolescence, so we can all smile knowingly about her little childishness.
An old man closed the "Confessions" she had written all her life. She gave a pair of hard-working lovers a perfect ending. At this time, her eyes were blue, no more sadness, no more resentment, it was so clear , is still no longer the noisy smell of that summer...
Always in the days of being separated, the lover's call is always lingering in my ears: come back to me,
but we will never return to the pain of being stabbed by the sun Eyes, flowers and plants grow wildly in the summer,
I think it is a dream of a lifetime, a dream about youth, with the taste of summer, accompanied by a sad melody, and of course the sound of a typewriter. When you wake up, the story will be told. Done.
I just want to recommend this masterpiece to everyone through text, share, the taste of that summer...
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