A hot, long and chaotic summer afternoon.
In the gardens of the English countryside, delphiniums, primroses, snapdragons, lupins, ranunculus are in full bloom, the grass is green, the overgrown roses form an arched porch, and the bees buzz.
Brianne is a thirteen-year-old girl full of fantasies. She is writing the play "Arabella's Trial" on a typewriter. Animal toys are lined up on the floor of the bedroom, neatly facing one direction, tigers are bigger than elephants, horses are bigger than tigers.
At the back is a model of the estate. Realistic and cool, even the half-new and old walls have the same color.
She showed the script she had written, and the first person to tell it was Robbie, the son of a gardener and a housekeeper who had been missing for twenty years, and the object of her crush.
In the garden, Robbie is working.
Brianne and her sister Cecilia were lying on the grass talking, and she asked how you would feel if you were someone else? Asked again why she didn't talk to Robbie.
Cecilia ran into the house with a bouquet in hand and put the flowers in a vase.
Cecilia picked up the vase, straightened her hair in the mirror, and walked barefoot into the garden.
When I met Robbie, I asked him to roll her a Bolshevik cigarette, in a commanding and indifferent tone, chatting with air and books quickly, and praising Fielding for his passion. Satire him for going to medical school.
During the dispute, the two broke antique vases.
Furious, Cecilia jumped off the fountain to pick up a shard, and when she stood up from the fountain, her underwear was clinging to her body, and her wet body was full of slenderness.
Robbie stared.
Brianne asked her cousin Lola, who came to the manor as a guest, and her twin boy brother to rehearse the play she wrote. She was the director and she read the script. She thought so.
The twins were going to swim. Brianne looked at the garden boredly, and was sad and angry when she saw the ambiguous situation between her sister and Robbie by the fountain.
She thought she understood what was happening in front of her, she thought her Robbie betrayed her, and she ran to the Rose Garden.
In summer, the manor is as beautiful as paradise. It's just that this paradise is about to be lost.
Brother Leon and friend Paul visit, sparks spark between Paul and Lola.
Brianne made up her stories in the garden, and Robbie was the evil, dark jazz she wrote.
Robbie goes back to the gardener's cottage and writes to Cecilia.
In the years to come he will keep writing to her in his heart: "Dear West..."
He wrote two letters, one was straightforward, warm and seductive, and the other was polite, but he put the wrong envelope. He took the letter to dinner, and on the way met Brianne who was beating the grass and asked her to deliver the letter for him.
Brianne opened the letter and peeked, saw the naked confession, and told Lola in a panic.
By the time he realized he had made a mistake, it was too late. It is destined to be a paradise lost.
Robbie rang the doorbell with determination.
Brianne got dressed and wore a pearl necklace. In the hallway, she saw Cecilia's hair accessories falling, shining coldly, and led her into the study, where she saw her sister and Robbie, and everything changed.
"I can, and I'm sure." She had convicted him, and had become a judge.
The twins are neglected by their sisters, run away from home, and the family goes out looking for them, and Brianne is once again shocked to see scenes in the garden that are not meant for her age. She told her mother and the police that it was Robbie who assaulted Lola, "I saw it, I must be him."
When Robbie came back with the twins, everyone knew it wasn't him, but everyone didn't speak for him, only West said, "Come back, come back to me."
Four years later, Robbie went from prison to serve as a soldier, to France. Six months ago, after a quick meeting with Cecilia, West said, "Come back, come back to me."
So on the battlefield, Robbie wrote to her all the time: "Dear West."
Seaside house, white walls, blue window frames, "Dear West", that was his solace in the war. "Our story will continue, I will find you, love you, marry you, and live together with no regrets."
As he rushed to the sea with hope, facing Dunkirk of 300,000 people, everyone wanted to go home, and this was where his life ended.
Sister Brianne worked like a nurse. Dirty, smelly, tired, blood and wounds made her feel atonement. When she walked down the road in a short cloak of dark navy blue, the bright red lining of the flag turned out, making her as beautiful as performance art. The mother and children on the way talked to her and Oi Di, and her status as a nurse gave her a noble and holy feeling.
She found Cecilia's house, saw a messy bed in the room, and Robbie walked past her indifferently.
"I give them the reunion and happiness they deserve, which is the ultimate concern of humanity," she said.
So the messy bed was her gift, and the cold resentment of West and Robbie became her pleasure. She once again forgave herself in fantasy, and the red cloak that was turned up was her courage to die generously.
She had already forgiven herself, she said, I was thirteen years old.
She keeps them attached to each other, and Robbie's mania is dispelled by Eze's tenderness. She asked West and Robbie to ask her to go to a lawyer and her parents to explain the situation. Being able to do this for them is what she wants to accomplish when she arrives.
The scene is so real that it makes one believe that this is all happening. Lilac flowers on a small table, half-eaten bread, a boiled kettle, a jam jar with a spoon. In the curtains blown by the wind, the two were kissing.
If all this ever happened, then she could really be relieved. but. This is all her fantasy, and she has always been a person who indulges in fantasy.
From teenage to old age, she wears the same dress, the same hairstyle, and the same necklace. She was immersed in the atmosphere of her thirteen years, and never thought of liberation. She abused herself with this.
A self-righteous little girl who became a writer in the long years to come. She never forgot that she single-handedly destroyed the lives of two people.
Robbie died in Dunkirk and was never able to return to the Cecilia he missed.
Cecilia died in the underground dugout without waiting for Robbie to come home.
She said over and over, "Come back, come back to me." He wrote over and over again, "Dear Cecilia, our feature film will continue. I will find you, love you, marry you, and live without regrets. together."
Has Brianne made atonement? Confessing that if it was redemption, she had five years to do it. She has always been such a manipulative child, precocious and superficial.
When she was eleven she tricked Robbie into jumping into the river to save her, selfishly thinking Robbie was hers.
Because of Robbie's other love, she lied coldly and firmly sent Robbie to prison. Terribly calm.
By the time she was eighteen, she still didn't have the courage to meet Cecilia, just fantasizing a story of forgiveness on paper.
The deaths of Cecilia and Robbie became her cross, a life she could not put down.
Then she confessed when she was getting old, saying: Readers would not like to see that ending, so I gave them happiness. This is the ultimate concern of human nature.
But no, life is lost and will not come back sooner. Atonement or not, has nothing to do with the two who died. Readers and viewers will only feel sorry for Robbie and West, sad for their stories, and sympathy for the little girl, which has become indifferent because of the loss of Summer Paradise.
Those good old days, along with Brianne's childhood, are buried under the rubble of war. That last summer romance, a garden full of roses, a sultry afternoon air, a cool pool, a sweating gardener.
Western floral blouse and wrap skirt. Summer in watercolor. The last roses are in full bloom.
Always keep in mind.
Robbie and West, youth and life, were fixed on that afternoon, although they still had five years of suffering and the pain of separation to bear.
Brianne lived to old age. For her, the infinite years are the sins that she can't redeem.
"Atonement" was a 2007 movie, and it was almost the last romantic film. Since then, the big screen has been occupied by Marvel heroes, "Reunion" has swept the film industry, and there is no more beautiful love movie in the movie.
The summer scent dissipates, the "British Rose" is thankful, the little girl Saoirse Ronan grew up and filmed "Little Women", the ladies in the Crinoline dress became the fire girl, the vulgar world does not know how Romantic sophistication.
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