ATONEMENT

Title : Atonement

Genre : Drama

Cast : Keira Knightly, James Mc Avoy, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai

Rating : A very nice drama ^_^

Pic : wikipedia.com

Synopsis:

The story begin at 1935, where 13 years old Briony (Romola Garai) from an upper class British Family, who has the passion in writing, has accomplished her newest novel, The Trials of Arabella, which she described as a complication of love. However her cousin, Lola, who stay temporarily with her family due to her parents separation, said being difficult with regard to staging the play, much to her frustration. Alone in her bed room, Briony witnesses her sister, Cecilia (Keira Knightly) strips her clothes near the fountain, and dips into the fountain in front of Robbie (James Mc Avoy) their maid's son. She misinterprets this as aggression on Robbie's part when in fact Robbie and Cecilia are in love. Shortly, Robbie send apologize letter to Cecilia and ask Briony to give it to her sister, soon he realize he put the wrong letter of explicit erotically version, that he wrote before. Briony reads the letter and again misinterprets it.
During family dinner, once again Briony sees Cecilia and Robbie making love in the library, the scared girl, misinterpret that it is Robbie's assault to his sister. Briony try to tell everybody during the dinner but her mother tells her to be quiet and she doesn't understand that Cecilia and Robbie hold hands under the table. A letter of goodbye, written by Briony's twin cousins, and make everybody hurry. They spread out to find the twins, accidently, Briony stumble to Lola, whom has been raped by a man with a tuxedo, that run fast due to Briony presence. Tough Lola has said she did not see the raper, Briony is assured that Robbie is the one who rape her.
Robbie is brought to prison, and several years later, he has service the country as a soldier. Before his deployment, he was reunited with Cecilia in London, where they renewed their love, and he made a promise to return to her. Briony is now joining nursing corp like his sister, but she's unable to contact her since Cecilia is blaming Briony to what happen to Robbie. After seeing a newsreel showing members of the Royal Family visiting Paul Marshall's chocolate factory, Briony attends the wedding of Marshall and her cousin Lola. By this time, Briony, who is still attempting to write, has come to understand that she misinterpreted her sister's relationship with Robbie and that she made a disastrous mistake by accusing him. She now knows that the man who was raping Lola on that night was Paul Marshall and that Lola could not admit it. The quilt bound Briony so tight, can she face Robbie and Cecilia, and confess that it was her mistake so the two was separating?

Comments:
A very good movie. The story line is not easy to predict and the end is also not as good as I tought before ^_^. Romola played Briony very well, as a person who carry a guilt burden on her shoulder. The hospital scene is quite touching. A very recommended drama!

Fun facts:

• Dunkirk- French which used for the movie background is actually a small city of England called Redcar
• Ramola Garai shoot her scene in 4 days
• Joe Wright had wanted Keira Knightley to play the role of Briony in her late teens, but Knightley immediately liked the character of Cecilia, and also wanted to get away from playing girls on the brink of womanhood and play a more mature character for once.
• Redcar locals served as extras were paid 50 pounds.
  
• The movie set is in 1935, there is a scene where Robbie is daydreaming and the image of a four engined bomber crosses above his head. The plane is a Short's Stirling, which entered service in 1939.
• In the fountain scene, Cecilia pulls her blouse over her head before she steps in the fountain. When she rises from the water and dresses again, the buttons of the blouse are open.
• The bass bugle the nurse is polishing was introduced in the 1960s.
• imdb.com