In "Pride and Prejudice", the shot of Keira Knightley sitting on the swing frame is a classic scene in recent romance films. The muddy road, the quiet courtyard with poultry running, and the fields growing in the distance With abundant vegetation, no matter whether it is sunshine or rain, it is so pure and clear - and these just set off a woman's disappointment in love, so graceful and sad. Joe White seems to be fascinated by love stories that take place in the English countryside. The story background of "Atonement" is also set in the quiet and leisurely English countryside. However, the overall color of "Atonement" is not as bright as that of "Pride and Prejudice", and one of "Atonement". A large part of the story takes place in a slightly gloomy castle. Perhaps, it is in this lonely and depressing place that beauty and sin are easy to bloom.
Elizabeth, who was born in a small landlord family, fell in love with the rich son Darcy. This is the main story of "Pride and Prejudice". In "Atonement", the housekeeper's son Robbie fell in love with the rich daughter Cecilia - Joe White seems to be willing to use the gap between rich and poor and class to test love under the pressure of the world. The heroine he used in the two films was Keira Knightley, known as the "British Baby". Keira Knightley belongs to the kind of actress who is not very beautiful in appearance, but has an absolutely refined temperament. At the beginning of the movie "Atonement", the image of her when she passed the fountain with a vase in her arms was fresh and elegant mixed with some unruly and Wildness, and the scene where she jumped out of the fountain and fished out the corner of the broken vase and stood out wet from the water, as a male audience, it was hard not to be moved. It was her standing like a lotus out of water that gave Robbie, who had always had a crush on her, great courage. After crumpling countless pieces of paper, Robbie planned to write a romantic version of the love letter to confess, but ended up putting an erotic version of the love letter that he knocked out into an envelope.
To believe in the power of love letters, the sound of the typewriter that rang out from time to time in the "Atonement" soundtrack seems to be so emphasized. A letter full of eroticism, short as it may be, but so easy to ignite a pent-up love, Cecilia, who has always been in love with Robbie, falls in love; but don't trust the sender, thirteen-year-old Briony is a little girl who is keen on fantasy and writing. After stealing Robbie's love letter, she immediately bumps into the intimate behavior of her sister and Robbie in the study. She was raped in the forest while searching for her two lost brothers, and Briony blamed it on Robbie who wrote the evil love letter. , and also separated a pair of lovers who had just fallen in love...
"Atonement" unfolds from Briony's perspective. In the heart of a 13-year-old girl, there is a budding love, a keen perception of the things around her, and her world is beautiful And simple, there is a sense of stupidity. When she stood on the high-rise building and saw Cecilia standing in front of Robbie almost naked through the window, she didn't know that it was a love she couldn't understand. Perhaps, she felt that it was a kind of love for her pure heart. The hurt, at a deeper level, is caused by the seeds of hatred after being robbed of love (Briony likes Robbie and once jumped into the lake to test whether Robbie would save her). In the discussion of the theme of "Atonement", this work is not too profound, but it is thought-provoking compared with previous films of the same theme. Briony's fault is not diabolical. Many adults among us have also pointed fingers at some love that they can't understand? She is just a young girl who knows the world and can't predict the consequences. The condemnation of conscience she faces day and night as an adult is already the biggest punishment. After becoming a famous writer, Briony chose to write and publish the story that happened to her as her final book. At the end of the book, she made up a fictional reunion of Robbie and Cecilia's eventual reunion at the beach house. In the end, this may be the only and best way of atonement - she did what she could to make amends. She could have changed her testimony to save Robbie's reputation, but she had no choice but to swallow the truth when she saw the real criminals of the year -- Cecilia's brother's friend Marshall and his raped cousin Laura walk into the wedding hall. . In her opinion, washing away sinful love and regretful love also needs to be blessed, and she cannot cause another tragedy to happen in order to atone for her sins.
Technically, "Atonement" is also unique. The most noteworthy thing is that there is a long shot of more than ten minutes in the film, which follows Robbie to reproduce the hundreds of thousands of British and French troops from the Second World War. The scene of the evacuation from Dunkirk Beach, the grand and tragic scenes set off hopeless love, is heart-wrenching. In order to show Briony's love of fantasy, when Briony's imagination collided with reality, the director adopted a double narrative method, which occasionally made the audience a little bit incomprehensible but fit the film's narrative. The jump in the progression of the plot also shows the director's ability to connect the story. Often a time prompt and a line of no more than four sentences can completely make the audience understand. It deserves 7 Oscar nominations and will stand the test of time as a classic romance.
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