Atonement [Blu-ray]

I was so back and forth about wanting to watch this movie,because of so many negative and actually misquoted movie scenes in this movie.****Spoilers, but I read the spoilers too and decided to watch anyway so up to you!****The movie starts out with a very intelligent young woman who dabbles with writing and has a secret crush on Robbie (James McAvoy). After wanting telling Robbie she wants him to watch the play she has written, for her visiting brother and a few altercations, between her and her cousins(over starring in a play). The girl Briey is in a bad mood already,then sees her sister and Robbie having what looks like a slight tiff, between the two. The relationship between Robbie and her sister Cecelia is the classic poor boy loves a rich girl story. Their brother comes to visit and brings a friend of his who is an older man.Robbie decides to write Cecelia a letter which is what starts the wheel of the misunderstanding. Robbie writes an extremely crude letter and quickly realizes he can not send this letter, then rewrites another one. Apologizing over his actions towards Cecelia causing her to break a vase. While trying to get ready for a dinner party, Robbie becomes distracted and places the wrong letter in the envelope. He makes the blunder of handing it to her the younger sister briey who decides to read it and is shocked. Confused she confronts her cousin that is around her own age, Lola who gives her idea that Robbie is a sex crazed man. The young cousin is flushed,when talking to Briey and seems to have had some sort of fight. She brushes it off claiming it was her younger brothers. Then as Briey is walking down to dinner she walks in on Cecelia and Robbie in the fits of passion. Both embarrassed fix themselves and walk into dinner, while secretly caressing one another's hand. During dinner Briey is extremely rude and short with Robbie. It is discovered that the twin brother's are missing and decided to run away.The whole dinner party is out searching for these young boys, when yet again Briey has walked upon sexual encounter,but it is not with her sister,but her cousin Lola. With what seemed to be a man dressed the same as Robbie and dashing off as she drew closer. With no view of the face, Briey rushes to her cousin and asked what has happened. Then Briey makes them comment "Was it robbie?"The cousin deemly shakes her head yes and says the violator covered her eyes and she didn't know who it was. Briey thinks that Robbie had attacked her sister as well since she walked in on their steamy love making in the library. She accuses him of being the one of the attack, then Robbie is carted off to jail and given a choice to rot or join the army.We fast forward to a few years later where Robbie is trying to make his way back to Cecelia. The story pretty much follows that of a love story, the 2 have gotten back together. But he is called off to duty and the eventually get married.Then the story changes to Briey 5 years later and feeling guilty. Putting off her education she goes into a hospital for soldiers and tries to help out as much as she can. There is a scene that shows her confronting Cecelia who has for the most part cut herself off away from her family. Cecelia is married to Robbie in a small apartment and Robbie sees Briey and is on the verge of killing her, but calms down. He pretty much tells briey that he wants a letter from her stating why she accused him of being the one who raped her cousin. It is told that she realized her mistake, because she remembered that the man who had run away from her cousin was her brother's friend, who was walking Lola down the isle. Briey has agreed and starts to leave, then we fast forward to I would say about 40 years later.We see a much older Briey and she is on a talk show promoting her last book, as she finds out she is dying. The story is true in the beginning, but after Robbie's arrest. Briey never knows if her sister and Robbie ever met again. Her sister cut herself off from the family and died on oct 15th, 1940 and Robbie Had died June 1st 1940. That the reason this was Briey's last book, is the reason she had never had the courage to confront Robbie and her sister, after the mistake she had made. That her writing the book in that fashion was to try, to giver her sister and Robbie the life they had deserved....The few issues I had with some reviews that I have read a lot were about the war, but Briey states everything for the most part is fictional at the end. People flipped that Briey makes a statement saying she had a crush on Robbie around 10 or 11,but the misunderstanding happened at age 13. She very well could have started the crush during that time and continued it. People flipped that he should have never handed off the letter to the child, well it's very obvious in the movie that he didn't mean to hand that to the girl and never intended for anyone to see it! He apologized to Cecelia for ever getting the letter and made the statement he had a different letter. A lot of reviews flipped saying Briey was a hateful child who purposely destroyed her sister's and Robbie's lives. Watch the movie it is kind of obvious it was a misunderstanding and this woman had been carrying this burden around for her entire life. She has finally decided that before she died to tell the truth, where the story could have just died off with her. Which is why she is atoning for her actions. She is the cause of 2 people not having the lives they deserve to have. It's a very sad ending, but to me actually realistic. Not everything ends on a happy note with love. I can understand having this secret that eats away at you.I really enjoyed the movie and the act a little of the dramatic side, but still all around a good movie!

Atonement is a mystery that unfolds first in a child's mind and as the story progresses the audience learns the truth about what actually occurred all those years ago.What would happen if you had a chance to right a mistake? Would you do it as soon as you discovered your error? Or, would you wait decades after everyone is dead to confess?These questions are what people should ask themselves.*****AtonementWhen Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), thirteen-years-old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) at the fountain in front of the family estate, she misinterprets what is happening, thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola (Juno Temple) is raped, she tells the Police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed.IMDB quote*****Spoiler Time*****The BreakdownWhen a series of misinterpretations of a young girl puts her sister's love for a servant's son in jeopardy, what will she do to right a wrong she caused?Briony Tallis, played by Saoirse Ronan, is a brat of a child who mistakes adult behaviors as ones of depravity instead of what actually happened. She goes on to accuse Robbie of rape, when the real rapist is a friend of the family.Cecelia Tallis, played by Keira Knightly, is in love with Robbie Turner. Her world is destroyed when her sister, Briony, lies about Robbie. Her family disintegrates because of that lie.Robbie Turner, played by James McAvoy, is a servant's son and accused of raping a child that he did not. This lie by Briony led him to be convicted and later conscripted into the British military during World War II. Because the young Briony mistook his infatuation and love for her sister out of context.Atonement is the search for redemption. After 21 novels, the writer, Briony Tallis, is decades older and has now brain disease, she writes her last novel giving her sister and lover the life they both deserved: a long and happy love affair. In all those years, Briony had never forgiven herself for being a headstrong and envious child, but she did nothing to correct her error when it mattered the most: when both Robbie and Cecilia were still alive.This film has been rated: 7.8/10 Stars on IMDB.*****The Review Older Briony: So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for... and deserved. Which ever since I've... ever since I've always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I'd like to think this isn't weakness or... evasion... but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.This movie is a beautiful visual masterpiece. There is no argument there. If the audience takes the story on face value, then the narrative is a 10 out of 10 stars all the way.Unfortunately, the story has some issues. The conviction of Robbie Turner of rape, would he be eligible for military service, even in wartime? Then there are the timing issues of world events, Dunkirk for instance, that do not match up with what the story shows. There are more discrepancies than these.What felt disjointed at the end was an older Briony trying to make up for her lies with rewriting history in a fiction novel that is more autobiographical in nature. Instead of being contrite, she is matter of fact about the whole situation. The interview scene seems off. The editing jumped from here to there. Sometimes the viewer did not know where the story was headed or had been as a matter of the timeline. So when the interview with the older Briony was introduced, the scene felt odd at first.The principle acting is superb. The visual photography and effects are fantastic. The narrative is emotionally gripping. However, the facts of the story, from a historical perspective, and editing appear to need some assistance.For all the awards this film was nominated for and won, Atonement has its flaws.Watched free on Prime Video.*****The TallyMy review will be posted on Prime as well as IMDB.Prime... 4 out of 5 starsIMDB... 8 out of 10 starsHave a great and wonderful day.

Never tell a lie- and children's minds are a very tricky place. This story is unforgettable- just because it's a mistake doesn't mean you won't have to still pay. Heartbreaking and beautiful- simultaneously

This movie got award nominations, and I see why- it's superbly filmed, the acting is great, the scenery is outstanding, the war scenes are epic, the action is believable, the plot is easy to follow, and the movie moves along very well and keeps your interest.In a nutshell, Atonement is about how people's lives can be changed when people - including children - lie and act badly. The lying and acting badly can arise out of a single event. While the truly bad people reason away what they did, or do nothing to repair the damage they cause, the repentant try to right the wrong they helped cause. Or at least acknowledge it. Even to alleviate it any way they can. The child wrongdoer is in the best position to do this because they can still mature, grow up, see the wrong in what they did to innocent people. A child is often in the best position to feel bad about what they did- and seek Atonement.This movie is that Atonement- attempted over years' time by a woman who was a child when she lied and did wrong to an innocent man. Again, Atonement is an excellent - even outstanding - movie.The only reason I gave it four stars is that the dialogue is often spoken very quickly in heavy English accents, so many viewers won't be able to understand what's being said in scenes. You get the drift, though. But five stars isn't wrong. Atonement is definitely worth a watch.

If you're not crying, you're dead inside.

Took me along time to watch this movie, and hen I did, I should have watched it a lot sooner-I loved it!

Great acting in this story of a man wrongly accused of a crime sadly affects the lives of several people. The story involving the war, especially Dunkirk was well done.

« Reviens-moi » (« Atonement ») est un film particulièrement intéressant dans la construction originale de son scénario, avec d'un dosage subtil de retours en arrière, de scènes filmées de plusieurs points de vue (avec donc des significations différentes, de scènes peut-être rêvées (ou pas).Il est dur de raconter l'intrigue du film sans trop déflorer le ressort de cette histoire qui va de 1935 à la seconde guerre mondiale). Son point de départ est l'amour profond, mais forcément compliqué, entre Cecilia (Keira Knightley), une jeune fille de bonne famille, et Robbie (James McAvoy) le fils des domestiques qui a accédé à l'université, grâce à l'argent du père de Cécilia. Les apparences et la réalité sont parfois trompeuses, et Brionny la jeune sœur de Cécilia, qui de ses 12 ans est aussi amoureuse de Robbie, se laisse emporter dans une histoire qui la dépasse : « quel âge faut-il atteindre pour distinguer le bien et le mal ? » entend-t-on un moment dans le film.La photo et la réalisation sont très soignées. Saoirse Ronan est parfaite dans le rôle de Brionny jeune. Le plan séquence de plus de 5 minutes sur les plages de Dunkerque est lui tout simplement fabuleux. Il manque peut-être juste à ce film un « je ne sais quoi » qui avait fait d'Orgueil et Préjugés (du même Joe Wright) est véritable chef d'œuvre.

Absolutely beautiful and finely crafted film. IMO Knightley has never been better.James Mcavoy's performance was similarly excellent.I watch a lot of horror films, but they are nothing. THIS is the film that actually distresses me for some reason. A great watch, and a film that plays on your mind for days afterwards.

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