Crime and Punishment, Love and Sadness

Bernadette 2022-04-22 07:01:04

On some cloudy afternoons, I finished watching this not-so-short film without listening to the sound effects. Forgetting when it started, whether I can watch it smoothly without getting bored and immerse it in it has become my standard for judging the quality of a movie. And this one I think is definitely a good movie that can attract me. The story told in the movie is very simple. A man and woman who love each other are separated from each other because of a vicious lie and never see each other again. But it is a plot that can be clearly explained in one sentence, but it was sung and sighed by the director, which is particularly touching. Robbie's youth is overflowing. He touches the water surface that has just surrounded his lover, and he struggles how to give his lover The passage of writing an apology letter is a classic, it was a childhood time that once belonged to each of us, and a teenager's mind. And Cecilia's little recklessness in love and her firmness towards her lover moved me even more. During watching the film, the bridge of the nose became sore several times, and the mood fluctuated with the encounter between the two people. The director is really skilled. The scenes, pictures, lighting, and details are all exquisite, and every amazing thing is revealed for us during the unfolding of the plot. However, the connection between the first half and the second half does not feel abrupt, the contrast between the front and the back is really heaven and earth, there are not many scenes of war, but only a retreat, a life and death staged in the hospital, an innocent girl on the grass We have already made us think about what is a crime and who should be punished in the shock of coming into contact with the war? I think Briony as a teenager is especially a character worth exploring. She is sensitive and precocious. She has a crush on the young boy and projects her thoughts into the script she wrote, but she is still a child after all, and she is eager to use the script to get With the approval of adults, she did not hesitate to jump into the pond in order to test the person she had a crush on. After all, she still has the self-righteousness and self-righteousness of a child. She can't compete with her more scheming cousin. She is jealous of the love between her sister and the teenager. She wants to destroy the beauty. The feelings of the three people, so they deliberately told a lie and pushed the three people into the wheel of fate. I think she represents a kind of human evil before it's fully formed, and after Robbie was taken away by the police, her cold, expressionless eyes were the most chilling. Because that is the pleasure and indifference after fully knowing the inside story. This is a character worth thinking about. I haven't read the original book, but the author should be very ambitious to bring the war scene into it. On the one hand, it magnifies the pain of the protagonist through social changes, and at the same time puts a question in front of us. Briony is a small God, fate made her make a decision in one night, and in war, how many people lost their lives because of the act of war? Which of these lives are Gut? Which ones are damned? And are we obsessed with the impact of one person's mistakes on the lives of others, but are quickly relieved of the great sin unfolding before our eyes? Is it because the little girl was unwilling to replace fate, but was willing to accept greater pain? I think the author proposes a more interesting proposition. Seeing the moments before Robbie's death felt helpless and desolate, and seeing Cecilia's dying moments felt relieved, even though they couldn't meet again on their short trip to earth, the time they spent together was so beautiful and wonderful. , so that it is no regret that they can ignite the dark years of each other's life afterward. I think, before Robbie and Cecilia passed away, they must have also released the hatred they once had against their sister, just like when I saw her struggling to brush her hands with a brush.

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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!