the so-called life and inner stability is to lie at home all day, wake up and continue watching the movie, watching and falling asleep again.
Atonment - "Atonement"
is a story about growing up, about making a mistake when you were young and not getting redemption in your life. About self-righteousness, stubbornness and persistence.
Like Briony's light blue eyes, clear and stubborn eyes. The mole under the right eye, youth, youth, old age, is so stubborn and conspicuous, just like her character. Pale face. Cold eyes.
She is lonely in her heart, and only her boundless imagination is her comfort, her faith, and her warmth. This imagination has made her and destroyed her.
The achievement is that along the way, I have no distractions, and I have completed 21 novels. Achieved her perfect and fulfilling artistic life.
Destroying her life, she was all about love, about warmth, about beauty and happiness.
What exactly caused Briony to do this? Is it ignorant and arrogant? opinionated? Jealous and selfish? Paranoid willfulness? The desire to protect her sister?
When Briony was 11 years old, it was the age of the first love, she ignorantly had a vague affection for Robbie. She jumped into the deep water and attracted Robbie to rescue. It seemed that this would prove his affection for her. It is indeed naive, but please don't think she is ridiculous, which girl doesn't have spring? - It's just as beautiful.
Maybe it was hate, after she found out that she was not Robbie's love, and after her earnest anticipation, she found that Robbie was in love with her charming sister Cecilia, when she saw Cecilia taking off her coat in front of the fountain from the window, it was full of temptation Standing forcefully in front of Rob, nervousness and panic grabbed her instantly, she turned her head and held her breath. When she regained her senses, she turned to look again, only to see Cevilia standing naked in front of Rob, then put on her clothes and walked away willfully. At that moment, Briony's eyes were calm and hazy, a cruelty controlled by paranoia.
At the age of 13, she is at the age of imagination. The first novel she just completed has inflated her self-confidence to an unimaginable level. It's a pity that she turned her head away at a critical moment and missed the only chance to clarify the misunderstanding. She didn't see her sister taking off her clothes in order to go into the water to get the edges of the vase, and it had nothing to do with promiscuity. She just saw her sister take off her clothes in front of Rob and stand in front of him coquettishly, her disappointment and shame for her sister, and her heartache and hatred for losing Rob, and her heart has preconceived prejudice since then.
Once again, Rob just waved to her from outside the fence, and she galloped like a deer, unable to stop, not her speed, but her undying passion. And all of this, after she read Rob's erotic letter to Cecilia privately, Hui Fei was annihilated, and what followed was revenge after humiliation. And the established prejudice that ten cows can't pull back.
Briony's imagination is rich, and the age of 13 is also such an awkward age to start contact and understand "sex". Discovering the existence of Sex undoubtedly subverts the purity and beauty of every childhood, and that age is full of curiosity and shame about sex. From a hairpin scattered on the ground, she could follow it to discover the affair between Cecilia and Rob in the study. I can't help but sigh at the girl's sensitivity, especially the talented literary girl, who is really a mixture of devil and angel.
It is very cruel for Briony, who is going through a special stage in his life, to show such a glamorous scene in front of his eyes, especially for the man who is pregnant with his girl and the sister who is in love with each other. It felt as if the whole world had abandoned itself, and it seemed as if it had swallowed many maggots, causing uncontrollable heartache and nausea. Since the reality was so cruel to her, everything she did after that should be forgivable, and the circumstances were excusable, not to mention which young man has not been frivolous and rebellious? ——At such a willful age.
Briony found out about her cousin Lora's affair in the wild, but she was paranoid and insisted that the man was Robbie when she saw the escaped man's back. Lora went along with the flow to cover up her adultery scandal, saying that she was raped, and Roobie was framed, prison. After being released from prison, he went to the battlefield of World War II, and he and Cecilia have been separated from the world since then. Although the affectionate perseverance is no match for the ruthless years and changes in the world, Rob finally failed to return to the beloved woman, and Cecilia waited hard, but only waited for the person. Ghostly way.
But Briony just believed, that's all. Not sure. So she was always hesitant during the growing years, until at Lora's wedding, she saw the faces of Lora and Paul (as if called Paul, the man who sold chocolate) against each other, and the faith in her heart collapsed, because that In an instant, the tide of memory flooded her like a huge earth-shaking. She understood that the face she saw that day did not belong to Robbie, but Paul!!--Lora was not raped that day, but an affair with Paul. .
Briony couldn't face the truth, so she confessed to them. She was severely criticized by Rob and treated coldly by her sister. Perhaps only this kind of imagination could give her a temporary rest and peace in her heart. However, God did not treat her favorably. Robbie and Cecilia died in longing and turmoil one after another, leaving Briony with a sin that could never be redeemed. She could only use the rest of her life to repent.
At the end of the story, the aged Briony completed her 21st novel, the last in her life and the first in her heart. At the end of the story, Briony gives Robbie and Cecilia the best possible ending, chasing and frolicking carefree on the long, long coastline. - That was the last forgiveness she gave herself.
If life could go back to the way it was before, just like the love letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia on the front line:
Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.
(unfinished)
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