A time to kill, a time to heal-see "Atonement"

After watching this film, I can’t get rid of the five minutes in my head. I watched it back and forth three times. In addition to shaking or shaking, of course it is not technically speaking, but from the perspective of James McEvoy. The gray sky, to the slow-turning Ferris wheel in the ruins of the amusement park, to the various expressions of those wounded and disabled soldiers, it’s too apocalyptic. When I first saw this amazing five-minute long shot, I didn’t realize it was Dunkirk’s retreat, and then I wondered whether it was my eye problem or Joe White’s failure to take it, maybe it’s more likely. McEvoy's pale and solemn face from beginning to end, not the least of the excitement and joy of rushing out of hell to see the light, and some just the darkness before dawn as the day of the final judgment is about to come. Sure enough, McEvoy died of sepsis that night. In fact, the religious attitude in the atonement is very complicated, as if the Dunkirk Retreat was actually a real Noah's Ark, but McEvoy and Keira Knightley did not see it in the end. If I'm not mistaken, there were scenes of burning the Bible in the classic five minutes, with black leather and gold edges, paper flying everywhere on the fire, and the ruins in the background. No matter how you look at it, it is God's absence and the end of the end. McEvoy, who was wronged for rape and was forced to go to the battlefield, and Knightley, who became a nurse in order to have a chance to meet his lover, did not get the help they deserved, and one died at the end of the Dunkirk retreat. One day, a person who was drowned in a tunnel and deserved to be rescued did not get his due destination.
What's more cruel is that since McEvoy was taken to the police car, although the film has repeatedly filmed the reunion, kiss and love of the two of them, these are not facts, all are the imagination of his sister Briony.
Yes, this movie is twofold from beginning to end. The first is the imagination of what she saw by sister Briony (that is, she later wrote the story of "Atonement"), and the other is the real reality. The conjecture of sister Briony did not end when McVaughn was taken into the police car, but changed a place, a name, and a different age. Only this time there is no jealousy and malice, but full of so-called confession. And here comes another religious proposition-atonement. In "Atonement", on the one hand it declares that God is dead, on the other hand it continues to try to find out whether he can get a remedy after he has made a mistake.

Briony's feelings towards McAvoy are actually very abnormal. She fell in love with Mai at the age of 13, I am afraid it would have been even earlier. When she mistakenly thought that Mai and her sister had an adulterous affair, a very complicated relationship developed. Briony has a habit of cleanliness, as well as the kind of aversion to the adult world that she deserves as a minor girl, and the hatred and jealousy of a woman with a mature body. From the later episode of her sitting in the train, it can be seen that the shadow of the train cast on her face one after another, showing Briony's repressed, introverted, patient and gloomy character at the same time.
In fact, if you think about it more carefully, did Briony really caused the events of that summer night? The hand that praised her for her "good job" placed on her shoulders with red nails, and Laura and the chocolate maker who was the least punished in this story, Briony just looked at all the sins alone, of course she herself I wouldn't realize it. In this way, the explanation of the atonement became very smooth, and Briony played the role of Jesus once inadvertently. Because the source of the meaning of atonement is actually that Jesus suffered and redeemed the sin on behalf of others.

By the way, I don't know if you think that Briony's nun's temperament is very obvious, which forms a strong contrast with her sister's debauchery. Even the last method she used to atone for her sin-to be a nurse, the first frontline to treat the wounded is also intriguing. Of course you can think that she hopes to have a chance to meet Mai, but there is obviously something else other than that. By the way Let me say that the nurse uniforms during World War II and the cloaks of the saints in the Middle Ages are too similar (both are red and blue). And seeing the ending, I have reason to believe that Briony is absolutely unmarried for life and remains a virgin.
When I saw Laura and the wealthy chocolate merchant walking into the wedding hall happily, the happy gesture of the instigator of this incident seemed to me the biggest irony to Briony who was desperately trying to make atonement there.
Is this sin really redeemed, or is she really worth redemption like this, I'm afraid it was Briony's wish.
"A time to kill and a time to heal." The person who first saw Noah's Ark might not be saved.
Maybe you won't get it for a lifetime.

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