Under the prestige, it is actually difficult to match

Dennis 2022-03-23 09:01:21

This is a film that almost made me question the Golden Globe Awards, but the power of authority is very violent, so I have to admit that my level is limited, and I have no way of empathizing with the mysterious plot design of the West, so I have to look at it with my niche eyes This red-hot movie. First of all, I have to admit the success of the film's soundtrack and composition. The music that accompanies 13-year-old Briony every time he appears is so weird, reminding us that although this little girl is small, her lethality is very powerful. In the plots that unfolded one after another, it is undeniable that the beautiful scenery, the English style and the cruelty of the war all face the audience directly. What makes me wonder is, is the soundtrack and visuals alone enough for a film to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Movie? Because the plot of the story is very simple, a thirteen-year-old girl from a well-off family is in the midst of the turmoil of adolescence and has a crush on the housekeeper's son, but the housekeeper's son likes his sister, so he can't get it or not. The psychology of letting others get her motivated her to send the man to prison by giving perjury. The man entered the battlefield after serving his sentence, but his love with his sister continued. In the end, the two failed to get together after the war. The man died the day before returning home, and the woman died while waiting. The thirteen-year-old girl grows up, her conscience emerges, she blames herself for the rest of her life, and finally atones her sins in her own way. I don't know where the story is poignant and beautiful. I must say that the success of the film's plot is the process of showing the same scene from different perspectives and interspersing the past in the telling of the story. Let the plot gradually become clearer in the jump, this is technical work, there is a little bit of trickery, but it can only make me think in dizziness and can't be moved. When Briony was shuttled through the hospital, the voice of the war on the radio followed her around the hospital, and the scene from "Pearl Harbor" appeared in front of my eyes. However, when used here, it makes the theme of the film suspicious: is it saying that jealousy is a human inferiority, or that the war has made lovers unable to get married? Or is it that the inferiority of human beings is as despicable as war, and both have destructive and lethal power? A thirteen-year-old girl, tormented by so-called love and jealousy, is a bit ridiculous, and is likely to be forgiven by most adults. After all, she is a minor and does not have full capacity for civil conduct. So through her, is it a bit too much to interpret one of the seven deadly sins of mankind? Or tell us that jealousy can exert a terrifying power regardless of age, especially in the eyes of young girls who have no experience in the world and have fantasies in their hearts. But if that's what the film was meant to be, why isn't the title envy, but atonement? Of course, I don't think Briony's last way of atonement is useful. For the destruction of innocent love, no matter how much she does herself, it will not help. It is a useful atonement to make the lovers join hands again. Everything she did was only for the sake of her awakened conscience, and it was useless for the parties involved. But the West believes in Christ, believes in repentance, and believes that sincere repentance will be forgiven by the Lord, so the director tells a twisted story of a repentant who is sincerely guided by God. Jealousy is terrifying, but conscience is even more powerful, allowing the girl who was once occupied by the devil to persevere on the road to convert to God despite the extremely hard work. Perhaps this is the difference between Chinese and Western cultures. Forgiveness, as a virtue, has been faintly passed on to the audience when Briony's road to redemption is shown. Another reason why the tragic power of the film cannot move me may be that Cecilia, played by Keira Knightley, lacks texture. The audience is moved by the poignant love, which is always based on the fact that the male and female protagonists can make us admire and appreciate. But I can't see the cuteness of this pair of poor people, especially the cuteness of Cecilia, because I am too superficial, I always feel that she has a stronger taste of the dusty girl than the Cambridge girl, at first glance When I got to her, I felt that this was a woman who was ready to have her clothes pulled off by men at any time. The character setting of Cecilia may be to make Briony jealous of her. It is true that Briong players of any age group are more temperamental than Cecilia when they stop there casually. But such an arrangement, in accordance with the law of the more beautiful and the more cherished, weakens the heartache caused by beautiful things being torn apart. It can be seen that the director does not sincerely sympathize with this pair of poor life couples. As for Robbie's falling in love with Cecilia, he can only comfort himself with a lover's eyes. Finally, I would like to express my respect for the display of the tragic war. If the plot of the story itself is stripped away, it is just about the pain of the war. The filming of the film is very successful, but no matter how many sub-lines, if they cannot be integrated with the main line, they will all be lost. is a failure. It can only be said that beauty is beautiful, but it is too overwhelming.

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Atonement quotes

  • Cecilia Tallis: [about Robbie] No need to encourage him.

  • Leon Tallis: Guess who we met on the way in.

    Cecilia Tallis: Robbie.

    Leon Tallis: Told him to join us tonight.

    Cecilia Tallis: Oh, Leon, you didn't!