A story of love, war, class, secrecy, repentance and forgiveness.
England in the 1930s and 1940s, turbulent times. No matter how sincere love and repentance are, they are not worth the fate of the great era.
Keira Knightley is older sister Cee, and continues her signature skinny look in the show. Although she looks like a small sampan in a white one-piece swimsuit lying on the springboard, she wears that dark green satin open-back. The suspender dress is so beautiful. She was smoking a cigarette with a nonchalant attitude and had the handsome look of a pirate girl in Pirates of the Caribbean. I like the way she wears heavy lipstick and opens her eyes. But apart from these, she has nothing to stand out about, she is really just a vase. There's nothing wrong with the vase though. We love vases so much.
The thirteen-year-old Briony, the younger sister in the play, did a great job. Her appearance reminded me of the youngest daughter in "The Eight Beautiful Pictures". Seeing her self-righteousness will make her teeth itch with hatred, knowing that she is not some heinous bad boy, but she just hates how she can be so paranoid, so ignorant of human feelings, and even a little dark. Maybe each of us was stupid and hateful without knowing it when we were young and ignorant.
The magic is that Briony's three young and old actors have strikingly similar eyes. When the picture suddenly darkened, the 18-year-old suddenly turned into an elderly woman who appeared on the monitor, and her blue eyes still carried the regret of the 18-year-old. It was not until this novelist's last work of her life that she told the story of her life and her irreparability. In this real story she wrote, she didn't even change the name, it was just... she changed the ending of the story. The ending in the story is that when she was eighteen years old, she finally mustered up the courage to face her sister and Robbie, confessed to them, told her ignorance at the time, and said she was willing to do her best to make up for it. Watching Robbie's last reunion with her sister before the expedition, she stood under the window with a relieved expression. However, this is only the end of the novel.
The truth is that Robbie died of sepsis the night before the big army retreat, and Cee also died of World War II. The cruel thing is not that there are lovers who cannot get married, the cruel thing is that it gives you a beautiful illusion and shows you the cold reality. It's an unbearable pain that has nowhere to go.
An old man who knew that his time was short, spoke with a firm tone of remorse for making his life irreparable. At the end of the novel, she said, "I gave them the happiness". She said "gave" with all her might. The only thing she could give after everything changed was the ending of such a novel.
The intermittent background sound of the typewriter in the film, it is only at the end that it dawns on the old Briony that it was the sound of the typewriter when she was writing her novel. Life is like a play.
When the subtitles overlapped at the end of the narration, what Robbie kept saying to Cee was "come back.come back to me.come back.come back to me"..."I will return .Find you.Love you.marry you."...
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