The plot of the movie is not complicated, Keira played a rich girl Cecilia fell in love with the family servant's son, Robbie played by James McAvoy. Cecilia's younger sister, Briony, has shown her talent as a writer since she was a child, and she is also a little sensitive and precocious in character. A small misunderstanding caused Briony to misunderstand the relationship between her sister and Robbie, and the matter of men and women was even more beyond what Briony, a young girl, could understand. The development of the situation can be said to be missed by a thousand miles. Robbie was taken into prison as a hooligan, and finally decided to join the army to escape the tragic prison life.
Compared with traditional romantic dramas, the most distinctive feature of the film is that it adopts an epic approach to depict the scene of the British army's rout and retreat in France during World War II. As a member of the underdog, Robbie not only witnessed the brutal killing of the German army, but also experienced the decadent darkness of the British army after despair; in contrast, Briony's life as a nurse in the rear hospital: blood, pain and death. What ties the two together is Briony's sense of guilt for preventing sisters Cecilia and Robbie from being able to live together in reality. The film adopts the cutting method of repeated playback of the same clip from different perspectives, with excellent film music, which strongly increases the rhythm and rhythm of the narrative. But when the story progresses to the battlefield part of the second half, when Robbie and his comrades stumble from the smoke to the seashore waiting for the retreating ship to bring them back to their homeland, the movie falls into a purposeless length and dullness, and I even feel The director seems to have forgotten the integrity of the movie here, and overuse of epic means for the sake of epic effect makes the clue of Robbie more and more deviated from the main channel of the movie, and finally reluctantly pulls the story back to the right path through the old Briony's autobiography . Such a defect, even the technically stunning long lens can't make up for it.
But compared to the reluctance of the theme of the film "Atonement", the rhythm of the second half of the film can be ignored. "Atonement", as a medium connecting personal life and the background of the big era, was originally a subject that could be explored in depth. It not only took into account the small tastes and regrets in personal life, but also experienced the cruelty and ruthlessness of war through personal eyes. The key to the success of such stories that connect personal emotions with the tragedy of the times is to see the big from the small, from the shallow to the deep, or to highlight the great from the ordinary. The biggest mistake of the movie "Atonement" is that after successfully introducing the audience's childhood love story into the great tragedy of the war era, it stopped there, and even deliberately changed from big to small at the end, returning to the so-called sister at the beginning. Amongst the personal remorse for the destruction of my sister's happiness. The small taste should be a means to naturally bring the audience into thinking about the big era, but in "Atonement", it is completely the opposite. The big era has completely become the lace embellishment and sensational means of the small taste, which is forced out of tears. Flowing is naked chirping and moaning.
Now that I have mentioned the small and the big in the movie, I can't stop mentioning the topic movie "Lust|Caution" that took the same path this year. A friend asked me, why do you allow Wang Jiazhi to betray the country at a critical moment, but not allow little girls to complain in big times? Aside from the technical details of the film, what I want to emphasize here is the difference in narrative techniques mentioned above: "Lust | Caution" shows the tragedy of an era through personal tragedy and the performance of various characters in the face of national hatred and family hatred. A profound sadness starts small and ends big; while "Atonement" stays on small interests from beginning to end, the background of the big era is completely reduced to the embellishment of personal grievances, and the theme is not because of the existence of such an era background. and get any improvement. Rather than being deliberately provocative with no purpose, it would be better to focus on a simple love story from the beginning, at least as small and frank and innocent.
Throughout "Atonement", the narrative style of the film is very similar to the style of some Shanghai-style beauty writers. Beauty is beautiful, but the beauty is full of lice.
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