------Briony "
Atonement" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture for a reason, both technically and consciously have his unparalleled shining points, although the first half is in the literary performance It was a little too hard and a little showy, but the shocking and powerful ending of the film has successfully sublimated the film to a new height.
If the first half of the story full of time and space jumps is straightened out in sequence, the main story is actually different. Briony, an uncomplicated, talented but lonely rich girl, became jealous when she saw the various actions between her sister and the boy she had a crush on, and a priori qualitatively misunderstood her. A lie completely changed the three. Personal life.
But for such a story that is not very complicated, it shows a suspenseful and tense temperament due to the director's use of time and space jumps. With the perfect background of music, the first half of the film is completely full of sunshine. Guilt, that summer afternoon, all kinds of trivial details are intertwined, the delicate dialogue between the characters, Briony's complicated inner feelings are concentrated in a story with a conspiracy and coldness.
The second half of the film is still There are time and space jumps, but the degree of coherence is not high, and there is no more trivial editing between the story lines. It is just introduced in three paragraphs, and the story is told completely from the perspective of three people. At the end, I borrowed the old Briony. The truth, like lifting the veil covering the oil painting, unreservedly presents a scroll of human nature about self-redemption. It is shocking and intriguing.
The mental journey of the characters is the focus of this film, especially the Briony, teenager, youth, old age, three life attitudes, the perfect performance of the three actors brings Briony from jealousy, misunderstanding to awakening, self-punishment, and finally relief and relief.
The young Briony is lonely and sensitive. She is talented but has no one who really understands her. Her sister is cheerful and outgoing, even a little romantic. Her brother is out all the year round and rarely comes home. Her mother is old-fashioned and gloomy. However, she has an ambiguous relationship with her sister. As a thirteen-year-old girl, he can see the parts of the adult world but cannot feel the connotation. She is sensitive and fills in the details of what she thinks are facts, about her sister in front of Robbie. Undressing and losing her body, she just glanced at the appearance and arbitrarily concluded that their relationship was ambiguous, even regardless of her sister's expression at the time was actually angry, not to mention the reason behind the incident, because of her crush on Robbie, accelerated this misunderstanding. Spreading, she even instinctively refuses to seek the truth of the matter and prefers to live in her own world, because in that world, she will always be a victim who needs care and love.
Robbie's mistakes accelerated Briony's steps towards jealousy , She didn't even want to hear the client's explanation and immediately concluded that Robbie was a libido. Of course, things happened so fast that afternoon, so fast that there was no time for a little girl to calm down and think about it. Things happened one after another, like a butterfly effect. The same. Speculation has become reality, and each event fragment presents a completely distorted state due to Briony's subjective and deliberate accumulation. She gets her own affirmation and understanding of herself in her heart, and she is immersed in this painful affirmation and fictional facts. He couldn't extricate himself, so much that he clearly saw that his brother's friend was committing adultery with his cousin. The continuity of subjective judgment and overly nervous heart made her believe that what she saw was Robbie, and she was satisfied that her speculation had been confirmed, Trying to get everyone's approval, her potential purpose has also been achieved, breaking up her sister and Robbie, although she doesn't know what it means for adults. And when she grows up and realizes, it's too late.
Growing up, Briony already knew what absurd and serious mistakes he made when he was a child. Just because of his own words, the young Robbie's future was ruined, and he was sent to the front line of World War II. The place closest to the battlefield that she can reach is waiting for her beloved to come back. Briony knows that everything is irreversible, and she is deeply condemned by her conscience. In the endless guilt, she chose to live a life like a nun, paralyzing herself with labor, and concealing her deep loneliness with a cold exterior. She did not allow herself to be happy, and the only consolation was to record her sins in words. When She was sure that the person she saw back then was her brother's friend, but when he and her cousin got married when everyone was suffering in different ways, she completely lost the last bit of love and pity for herself, because of the kindness that brought her. Guilt made her spend her whole life repaying the sin
that she thought could never be redeemed. The old Briony knew that her time was running out, and she spent her whole life writing her own story. At the end, Briony told the truth about what happened to her sister and Robbie, and made a deep confession. Although she was not forgiven by the two, her sister and the two lived happily ever after. In an interview with the book publication, Briony Telling the truth of the matter is different from the end of the story. When she knew the truth, she didn't have the courage to apologize to her sister, and it didn't take long before Briony had time to summon the courage, and her sister and Robbie passed away one after another. Her own resentment and the repentance from Briony that she will never hear has passed away forever. Briony has no other choice but to repay the debt with her whole life. Although the facts cannot be changed, she chooses to give her sister and daughter in the novel. Robbie's happy ending can be regarded as giving them back everything that should belong to them, even though it's all illusory.
If the brilliance of the story and characters comes from the charm of the original novel, then the beautiful pictures of the movie should be the credit of the director. Part of the dazzling and lazy sunshine, the second half of the cold and cruel battlefield, especially the 5-minute long shot on the beach, the dilapidated flag, the diffuse smoke, the fragmented playground and the slow-moving crowd, plus that. A touch of dark red and bloody yellow sunset has written a sadness like an apocalyptic picture
The combination of music and pictures is another highlight of the film. It deserves the Oscar for Best Original Music. The first half of the film depicts Briony's heart. Entering the allegro piano as a rhythm, it also shows Briony's tense, self-closed, and firm character. In the second half, the violin's low and depressive timbre casts a thought-provoking sadness on the war. The soothing melody matches the low-key and calm scene. The atmosphere of the whole movie is very well rendered.
As for the character performance, I want to say that the three Briony actors can say that the interpretation is quite expressive. From the first shot, the girl Briony walked quickly through the corridor, and he and his servant A few words of people have shaped a lonely and sensitive young literary woman, and the young Briony's nun temperament is also well conveyed, and her eyes reveal her restraint and depression towards herself, especially at her cousin's wedding. The despair shown, coupled with the effect of montage, fills the whole picture with the deep self-blame like a tide. The old Briony is undoubtedly the most wonderful, although only a few words, but he has done his life. The vicissitudes of life, let us seem to see her unmarried life of redemption, for returning her sister and Robbie's share of happiness that belonged to them, Briony seems helpless and happy, not only regrets her inability to change the facts, but also because she can do her best A little power to comfort their spirits in the sky and feel relieved and relieved. I give them their happiness. Against the background of music, Briony is truly moving.
Although the overall distribution of the film is a little out of balance, the first half emphasizes the literary and artistic narrative and pictures Sex, in the second half, he spent a lot of time describing the cruelty of the war, and it didn't return to the theme of atonement until the end, but for me, "Atonement" is still a good work, and Briony's deep heart has nowhere to go. Self-blame, unwilling to dissolve in front of the camera for a long time, strong and touching.
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