see must be true? What cannot be seen, must not exist?
Under the golden sunlight, the beautiful girl lightly unfastened her clothes and jumped into the blue waves. Her graceful and exquisite figure fell into the eyes of the childhood sweetheart boy. With presumptuous eyes and a subtle atmosphere, the young man took the throbbing of that moment into an unspeakable secret in his heart, and caressed the ripples on the lotus pond.
On that summer afternoon in 1935, the scene that thirteen-year-old Briony witnessed through the window, regardless of the cause and effect, became a vile persecution. Although the young Robbie is the son of a servant, he is upright, motivated, and tall and straight like a poplar. The little girl has a secret love in her heart and collapsed in an instant. The rapid typing sound made her anxious and restless. The girl was like a little sleepy beast, unable to find an outlet for her emotions in her own imaginary world.
In the gloomy library, a green dress reflects the girl's snow-skinned beauty, and the star-shaped diamond jewelry shines in her hair. At the most beautiful moment, the girl finally poured out her true love to the boy. Wearing his most respectable dress, the teenager put down the scruples of status and responded enthusiastically with a firm kiss.
Briony privately opened Robbie's letter to her sister Cecilia, and mistook the love affair for sex. The blue pupils are full of clear courage, and the crimson face shows anger, puzzlement and pity without concealment.
When we were young, we were always like this, simply reducing the world to black and white, directly judging people as good and bad, and easily dividing emotions into love and hate. A single question can change the trajectory of the stars in the child's world, and then shake the entire small universe. And the reversal of love turns into deep resentment, and it has destructive power.
Briony's cousin, Lola, was assaulted. As the only witness, Briony had long regarded innocent teenagers as guilty. The viciousness of innocent and innocent children, like the grain of rice or the uncleaned fishbone in a fish fillet, will give people an unexpected pain. In a righteous manner, she ruined Robbie's bright future with half-sober and half-imaginary testimony.
[The wicked will be caught by his iniquity, and he will be entangled like a rope by his iniquity. ]
The end of love is also the beginning of sin.
Briony, who has grown up, sees the truth, but can't restore the separation between her sister and her lover. Robbie joined the army, far away from his homeland, carrying the only thought in the thorns bullet - to meet with Cecilia at the seaside hut. The scene of the Dunkirk Retreat renders the desolation of the apocalypse. In that group of long shots, the black smoke filled the sky casts the mournful flames of war, and the people on the gray-white beach who do not know where they will be tomorrow are venting to their heart’s content in the dilapidated playground. . Robbie dodged the apocalyptic crowd, crying silently in front of the black-and-white film in the hustle and bustle.
At the other end of time and space, Cecilia seals her thoughts with a kiss, waiting for her steadfast love, full of hope and waiting for her lover to come back to her side. This is the best and noblest love that every girl can give. It doesn't matter what the status of the other party is, whether the other party bears the shackles of crime and punishment, using the splendid youth to gamble on a vague future, and paying the heavy price of betraying the family, just because she loves him.
"Yes, I saw him, I saw him with my own eyes."
If time was reversed and he knew that the afterlife was in disarray, would Briony repeat this so-called truth over and over again hypnotically?
In the world, there is never an if.
[It is more blessed to give than to receive. 】
We all forget that Briony's love is also deep.
For her, the five years were a painful process of tormenting her conscience. At the age of thirteen, with a sharp expression, she died in the tragedy of losing a loved one. After growing old overnight, she became a woman with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes to redeem her sins for life. She gave up the opportunity to study in Cambridge, and worked hard to become a qualified nurse at the school where her sister once attended, washing away the sins of her soul with physical exertion. She insisted on writing the story of that hot afternoon, trying to return the truth to history, and devoted her life to completing the long ritual of praying for forgiveness.
Briony is just a kind-hearted "person" who ignorantly distorts what he sees without human affairs. This ignorant evil should not force her to bear all the sins and punishments, and sacrifice her years as a tragic funeral. She loves Cecilia, and the most genuine desire to protect her sister makes her eager to find the criminal. She doesn't trust the "pornatic" to bring her happiness; she loves Robbie, and she faces pain and death every day as a nurse. Looking forward to seeing Robbie. In fact, from the moment she resisted the fear and disgust in her heart, and rubbed her hands desperately after cleaning the patient's dirt until her skin turned red, I forgave this girl. The moment she agreed to the marriage proposal before the death of the wounded soldier, she was as holy as an angel.
The world kisses me with pain, and asks me to return with a song.
She forgives the sins of others in the process of self-redemption. When the adulterous man and woman got married, Briony chose to keep silent. The kind-hearted she longed to make others happy. This kind of silent and magnanimous love has brought her peace of mind in a life of guilt and self-blame.
[In him was life, and this life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ]
The end of the story is reversed. In his old age, Briony brushed away the dust of the past and exposed it to the eyes of the world. She calmly narrates that she has suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and this life-long story will become a closed book. She confessed that the chapter at the end of the novel where she confessed to Cecilia and Robbie was pure fiction. Even if it was fiction, she was careful to take for granted that Robbie couldn't forgive her.
I really want to hug this silly girl.
She couldn't see it, and Robbie wept silently after seeing the bodies of the girls lying across the trees. He remembered that when he was young, the little girl used a childish way to test whether the boy who had a crush on him would be desperate for herself. In the entangled water and grass, the young girl struggled to save her like a hero, and the little girl turned her full of joy into a kiss on the cheek. But the teenagers at that time did not understand, and did not understand the careful thinking of these daughters. This love, although young, is long-lasting. But when he understands, he has lost the opportunity to say "it's okay, I forgive you" to the girl.
The truth of the matter is that Robbie died of sepsis and Cecilia died from the air raid. The time he and she embraced each other in this life was just a brief moment in the reading room when they confessed and met on the streets of London, and even living together was only part of Briony's fantasy. He still insists that if the story is repeated, I will come back, find you, love you, and marry you.
【Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy, love does not boast, is not arrogant, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not reckon evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but only rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love is never ending. 】
If the culprit of all sins is to be reckoned with, then everyone can't get rid of it. The loss of the reckless and stupid twin brothers is the fuse, the chocolatier's adultery with the precocious cousin is the key, and the executioner who caused the bloodshed of thousands of people in the war is the most heinous crime. But love and Yuanyou can teach all sins to dissipate, and they can teach us that no one is unforgivable.
Too many people accuse Briony of tampering with the ending to exonerate himself and escape the punishment of his conscience. But she is just a "human", and with her cowardice, she may never dare to apologize to her sister in her whole life. But I believe her explanation: "I want to pay them back the happiness they deserve." The truth is not revealed, and she has used compassion and forbearance to pay back this heavy life.
She also explained to future generations with the perfect ending she envisioned, faced her fault with clear courage, and blessed others with eternal love.
Love never stops.
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