This article was published on the Taotaotao Movie Official Account (ttfilm) on September 8, 2017. If you need to reprint it, please contact DouPost. ================================================== ======================= On September 7, 2007, "Atonement" was released in the UK. There are beautiful blue eyes in this movie
Knightley's green silk dress
And the best long shots of Dunkirk
Even without bloodshed and gunfights, among the shots depicting the Dunkirk retreat, this shot in "Atonement" is definitely one of the most shocking. With 2,000 extras, complicated camera movements, and less than two days of shooting time, the 35-year-old Joe White used this long shot of 4 minutes and 52 seconds to show his extraordinary scene management ability and huge ambition. Let us look back at this movie from the beginning. Everyone should remember the story: the little girl Brioni gave false testimony due to ignorance and misunderstanding, leading to the imprisonment of sister Cecilia’s lover Robbie. Robbie is forced to join the army in order to get out of prison, and Cecelia breaks with the family and becomes a nurse. The last two did not get the happiness they have been waiting for in reality. Brioni wrote the book "Atonement" in regret. 1. The personality differences between Brioni and her sister Cecilia: At the beginning of the movie, Brioni arranges all kinds of animal models in a neat line. It can be seen that she likes order very much, or she likes to make it according to her own understanding. Things return to order
Cecilia is much more casual, whether it is the messy furnishings in the room or her behavior and words are different from her sister
2. The first script written by Brioni is called "Arabella's Trial"
Since then, she has been waiting for a missing trial all her life. 3. The painting on the wall of Brioni's study depicts a girl in white longing for sacred glory
Brioni, who likes to wear white clothes, will also wait so hard for her sister and Robbie to forgive her. 4. The comparison between the toy castle and the real scene appears in the film many times: the castle of the Talis family and the toy castle of Brioni
Run-down house and little girl's toy castle on Dunkirk beach
The former aggravated the drama of the incident, and the accidental incident caused a sudden change in fate. Everyone was like a chess piece in a toy castle. The latter alluded to the soldiers who had been killed in the Dunkirk retreat and lined up to wait for the retreat. In the eyes of God, they are like a team of toy soldiers, who may be swallowed by the sea of fate at any time.
5. Laura and Brioni used a lie to ruin Robbie's life. In the film many times it is suggested that Lola lied: Brioni’s script tells the story of a frivolous girl eloped with her sweetheart
Lola offered to play the heroine
Corresponding to the secret collusion between her and the wealthy businessman Marshall (one of Benedict Cumberbatch’s most wretched characters) in reality
The sentence Brioni read in the garden later accused a red-haired person of being untrustworthy, and that Lola was red-haired.
But look at this symmetrical composition
Brioni and Lola are the same kind of people in terms of lie leading to evil results. They are the culprits in the love tragedy between Robbie and Cecilia. 6. In Brioni’s description, Cecilia suspects that the real murderer is Danny, the other servant
Why do the rich always target their servants after crimes? The actor who played Danny was Alfie Allen who later played Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones.
There are two other actors in the movie who later starred in "Game of Thrones", namely Tobias Menzies who played Edmund Tully and actor Nonso Anozie who played Zaro Zanwan Daxos.
(The naval officer who spoke to Yimei is Tobias, and Yimei’s black companion is Nonso). 7. Brioni likes Robbie, but they can't be together. When they were talking, they were separated by a barrier, and Robbie called her over to bring a letter to Cecelia.
They were facing each other across the table during the meal, Robbie shook hands with Cecilia
The only time the two became intimate was when Brioni fell into the water in the same swimsuit as Cecilia, and Robbie struggled to save her ashore
This made Brioni very happy, but Robbie saw that she was pretending to fall into the water and left her angrily. I can’t help but sigh, how many loli forced the uncle to rescue
How many loli destroy the unreachable in the name of love
8. When Robbie and Cecilia met on the street, an officer passed by them, and the soldier on the right side of the screen immediately saluted. And when Robbie passed by because he was just an ordinary soldier, no one saluted him
If it weren't for being imprisoned because of wrongdoing, Robbie's education level could be an officer. Maybe he doesn't need to go to the front line, maybe he can be a doctor, and the whole fate will be rewritten. 9. The movie lasted for about 1 hour, 5 minutes and 8 seconds. Robbie and his two companions climbed the hillside and saw the ruined buildings on Dunkirk Beach, the dim setting sun and soldiers waiting to retreat.
Sadness and helplessness spread everywhere, and Robbie gradually fell into a fatalistic ending.
The sigh of the companion may refer to Moses leading the crowd across the Red Sea, or it may refer to Noah's Ark, so that the soldiers lined up on the beach waiting to board the boat are like Brioni's animal model at the beginning of the movie. The long shot of Dunkirk Beach was taken 5 times, and the third time it appeared in the movie. The French city of Dunkirk that appeared in the film is actually the British town of Redcar. Dunkirk’s street scenes and generator room scenes were filmed at Grimsby Docks. As far as the creation of an atmosphere of despair is concerned, "Atonement" ten years ago restored the entire Dunkirk retreat with a single shot: at sunset, we followed Robbie's footsteps on the Dunkirk beach
All you can see is the stranded ship
The ship’s name is pronounced like "Miss London"
Soldiers calling out "Girls, I'm going home" on the mast
The soldiers are all disgraced, destroying everywhere, burning documents
Soldiers singing chants in unison
The most impressive thing is the horses lined up with headshots one by one
A group of soldiers galloped past on horseback cheering
When resigned, there is no difference between a man and a horse. And the recreational facilities on the beach are even more magical
The ferris wheel and merry-go-round that shouldn't be here add to the absurdity of the scene. The more presumptuous the soldiers in the apocalyptic carnival play, the more joyous they are, and the despair in the picture deepens. But there is one biggest difference between "Atonement" and "Dunkirk". The former is a feature film and the latter is a war film. The war is the background of the story of "Atonement". It took away the happy ending that Cecelia and Robbie might have had, and it also took away Brioni's chance to complete the atonement. But war is not the main melody of this movie, "Atonement" is about a love tragedy. Therefore, the role of the long shot of Dunkirk in "Atonement" is only to explain Robbie's environment at the time and hint at his ending: On the beach, a naval officer told Robbie that the wounded could not be evacuated with the army.
Previously Robbie showed an untreated chest injury while reading postcards
Foreshadowing the outcome of his death from sepsis, he did stay in Dunkirk forever as a wounded. Another hint is the movie played on the beach in Dunkirk. It was the 1938 French film "Le quai des brumes", which tells the story of a deserter who tried to escape from France and finally separated from his lover. When the hero and heroine on the screen were kissing, Robbie closed his eyes and turned his face to the side like the hero. Is he thinking about Cecelia?
10. Cecilia jumped into the water lily pond to collect vase fragments
She finally died in the water
Robbie has touched the water in the water lily pond that Cecilia jumped into
He ended up in a dark and damp place just like Cecelia.
In Brioni's book, the two of them are happily reunited by the sea, chasing the waves.
In reality, Robbie’s words floated in the air.
330,000 people went home, Robbie did not, neither did Cecelia, there are countless stories behind the true history that did not come to a successful conclusion
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