Dearest Cecilia,
The story can resume, the one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the Surrey park at dusk in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
At first reaction, this soldier must not have survived in the end.
There is a sentence in "April Splitting Silk" - affection is a tragedy, and it needs to be read in death.
really.
But at the time, I didn't know why the soldiers kept repeating "The story can resume" over and over again, until now, five years later, I have watched the film completely.
If the story could be repeated, without that lie, they might have been together, maybe die in war, maybe... But without the if, the story couldn't be repeated. So Briony can never be redeemed, can't apologize, can't be forgiven. So she wants to finish that work in her lifetime and give them the happiness they deserve.
Regarding the child's lie, I watched Denmark's "Hunting" last year. The same ignorant lies of children bring devastating changes to people's lives, but the accusations of the girls in this film are more based on jealousy and anger. Witnessing her crush having sex with her sister makes Briony tell big lies just to vent her revenge for betrayal. But in fact, the moment she saw Robbie being taken away by the police, she had already begun to regret it, so she was questioned by Robbie when she fantasized about going to apologize to her sister later.
Yeah, how old do you have to be to tell right from wrong?
Being young should not be an excuse for us to hurt others. Because even if we apologize and beg for forgiveness, even if we write a book to give a happy ending, what happened will never change, and the remains of hurt will always remain.
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