I thought I had my emotions under control when we jumped to 1999. Keira Knightly’s quiet anger, combined with her passion for Robbie was beatiful to watch. I cried at Briony’s reunion with her sister.
I didn’t cry when I read the book, but the movie wrecked me. The movie won this section though through the emotion of the actors. I loved the way the book described Briony’s training and the fearful resolve of the new nurses when the injured soldiers began to arrive. Part three of the book and movie are about Briony’s life during WW2 as a Nightingale Nurse. The movie only showed a fraction of the horrors experienced over there.
You could also see him struggling with his injury. Robbie’s traveling companions were better described, and more important in the book. In this section, I enjoyed the book more. Honestly, her acting is what hooked me into the rest of the movie.Īfter Briony’s crime, both the book and the movie fast forward four years to occupied France and the English retreat in 1940. Saoirise Ronan is able to convey all the turmoil in 13 year old Briony’s mind just through her body language. The different points of view still overlap, but they are shown more as foreshadowing than repetative filler. Their versions of events overlap, and there is so much detail that the book gets a bit boring, whereas the movie keeps a steady pace. There are other characters, but I mention these four, because we get different perspectives of Part One in the book from each of them. The girls’ mother, Mrs Tallis, who is usually in her room with a headache.Robbie, the son of the cleaning lady and pet project of the girls father.Her sister Cecilia, who is just home from college and feeling rather restless.There is Briony, a 13 year old girl who writes stories and has written her very first play.In part one of the book, we are introduced to the main characters.
This really is a great book, but I am going to say something I almost never say: I liked the movie better. I loved that the reader was kept guessing as to what really happened and who the criminal was, even though there were subtle clues. I loved that the romance was passionate, but not over the top. I loved that the story was told from multiple points of view. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
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