just watched Atonement yesterday, and after more than a month of its release, I finally got a chance to watch it. , is the nominated film of this year's OSCAR, plus the director of "Pride and Prejudice", Keira's starring, the original work of the best-selling novel, the real historical background. From the first day of the release, I was eager to see it. The result was depressing After hearing about it, my friends agreed that this is a "chick's movie", which means a girl's movie. Find someone to watch it with you... As a result, I watched
Let's talk about the general plot.
13-year-old briony dreams of being a writer. In order to welcome her brother Leon back from college, she wrote a play and had her cousin lola and her twin cousins perform. Briony's 23-year-old sister, Cecilia (Kyla!) and The housekeeper's son, Robbie, both went to Cambridge University. During the three years, the two did not speak a few words at school, but in fact, the two had inexplicable feelings for each other in their hearts. Cecilia was preparing flowers. When I met Robbie, the two of them pulled each other and broke the precious vase. Cecilia took off her clothes in front of Robbie and jumped into the pool to salvage the fragments of the vase. Briony saw this on her windowsill. A provocative scene. At the age of 13, she also has a good impression of robbie. She seems to understand what happened, and she is confused. Robbie returns to her room, a little sorry for what happened just now, a little happy (this ...if you can understand it), so he wanted to write an apology. He wrote two, one with the obvious formal wording, and the other with the word "cunt". (This word What does it mean...well...the notorious f#$k" You should be familiar with it. This word is more intense in English than that word. Don't say it face to face, or you'll suffer, don't blame me for not reminding...) Two letters The confusion of yin and yang, the letter that should not have been sent to cecilia was sent. cecilia finally realized that both herself and robbie had wild desires for each other, so in the unmanned study, the two had a relationship. But... briony broke into the study and came across this scene. She was angry, anxious, and full of repressed emotions, which eventually led to what happened later. The family held a dinner party for the arrival of leon and his friend marshall, who owned a chocolate factory. In the middle of the banquet ,briony found the letters left by her twin cousins, they ran away from home. All the people hurried to find. In such a dark night, lola was raped in the bushes. briony saw the rapist She resolutely told the police that Robbie was the rapist, and in fact, Marshall was the real culprit. In this way, Robbie was thrown into prison for three years. The war broke out, robbie applied to leave prison to join the army.It involves World War II and the Kirkton Evcuation in 1940 (I don't know what that was.) briony grows up, she understands what a huge mistake she made and her sister learns that robbie is in the army After becoming a nurse, briony realized that he had broken up a pair of lovers. In order to atone for his sin, briony gave up the opportunity to go to college and became a nurse.
That's the rough outline of the storyline, since robbie was thrown into prison there hasn't been a lot of dramatic action. But the ending is heart-wrenching. Robbie died on the last day of the evacuation, in October of the same year, an accident also seized The life of cecilia. The film ends with an interview with briony, a 70-year-old who has become a famous writer, and
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overall rhythm of the film is fast and slow. Most of the time the director tells the audience how things are going in a calm narrative tone. The music uses a lot of typewriter and piano sounds to create tension and persecution Some objects in the movie are important elements to promote the development of the plot.
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Vase The broken precious vase is the cause of the whole story. It is the beginning of the melting ice between cecilia and robbie. , is also the beginning of briony's misjudgment of the whole incident. I have been wondering whether this broken vase symbolizes the broken and difficult love between the two people.
2. The star-shaped hairpin
This is when cecilia is preparing for the banquet. But it was accidentally left under the stairs leading to the study, and briony, who was going down the stairs, picked it up, and finally followed the sound and bumped into the scene in the study. The star hairpin was full of diamonds, so dazzling The color is so unreal, it seems to indicate that all this is just a dream that happened in the summer of 1935, and will soon disappear into the cruel reality.
3. The wrong letter There is
no such wrong letter, maybe Nothing will happen. Briony peeked at the letter and saw the word "cunt" like a needle stick. After the rape, it was also Briony who read the letter to his parents, which led to everyone's attitude towards robbie Doubt arises. (I'm not saying that every man is the same at this level, but it's just the difference between what is said and what is not...)
4. Green halter dress
The dress that Keira wore at the banquet. The large open back is naturally a hint. It can also be said that the relationship between cecilia and robbie is inevitable. This sexy dress and the movie later she became a nurse. The contrast. I believe that in such a war era, there must be countless such things happening. Cecilia is just one example of many characters. This kind of contrast also shows the cruelty and ruthlessness of war. The
film also uses There are a lot of contrasts.
Because of the time constraints, the time span is relatively large, and the film can be considered to be shot in four stages. , character, clothing, character relationship. To sum it up in one word, all I can imagine is the sad "things are wrong". Just from the protagonist robbie, at the beginning of the movie, he He's just a housekeeper's son. After three years, he has a stubble beard and scars all over his body. Under the temper of longing and war, his love for cecilia has only increased. No wonder people always say that time can prove everything. briony Her growth has also been highlighted in the movie. The mistakes she made at the age of 13 can be said to have directly and indirectly ruined the lives of three people including herself. She must carry such heavy sins and go on. Only at the end When the book was written, I believed that this was her real relief. She said everything, and all the names in the book were real. The dead souls of cecilia and robbie were buried long ago in 1940, when the smoke was flying. It
made me the most The distressed part happened the night before robbie died. It was the last day of evacuation, and he could go back to be with his lover as soon as he opened his eyes, but there was no time to control the coming of death. On the last night, he was in Before his death, he had the illusion of seeing his mother under his weak will. The mother gently took off his sweat and blood-stained boots and gently washed his feet. Such an illusion was not realized until he died. Desire. The night before he died, he tried to burn all the letters from cecilia to her, but in the end, until the fire of the match gradually went out, he did not start writing. That extinguished fire should be the passing of his life. Companion In the end, he didn't wake him up before 7:00 in the morning, all he could do was put away the bundle of letters that robbie was holding tightly...
This is the end of the story. This is a story that happened too easily in the war years. It is a mistake made by a 13-year-old girl because of ignorance and jealousy in adolescence. It is a story of redemption with a lifetime. In that era, we were only buried in that era, and we were only immortalized in that era. When we opened the scroll of history, we have no personal experience. All we can do is to sigh. Then close it and go on doing what we should do. doing things...
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