Atonement is a hotly tipped to be an award winning movie which has been adapted from the Booker Prize short listed novel of the same name.
It tells a story of a frustrated love affair that is separated by lies, war, class and time. Keira Knightly stars in several slinky slips of silk that mostly show off her hot back and her lack of boobs. But she looks gorgeous and is made for the role. The starring man, who's name I can't remember, was also amazing. But even though most of the movie focuses on him and his trials and tribulations Keira holds centre stage with her expressive eyes and her amazing costumes.
I always find film adaptations of novels seem to lack something, and this one is no exception. While the scene is set through lavish sets and delightful costumes I didn't get the same sense of claustrophobic aristocracy and the unbearable torment of separation. But this doesn't' detract from the film which was fabulous and made me cry three times.
Definitely go and see the film at the big screen as I can't imagine that you would get the same sense of place and time on a tv at home. No matter how big your wide screen LCD is. But maybe I am wrong. I just want an widescreen LCD myself but I am holding out for the environment and the exorbitant cost.
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I was going to review this but fortunately you got in first and thus the quality of this blog was improved.
I totally cried too, but only once.
I am currently spamming other peoples blogs with ATONEMENT IS AWESOME SEE IT types comments and I plan to keep doing this for a while.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful film. I loved each and every second of it. And cry? Talk about torrents! There was even mucus involved.
Apologies for the poor grammar MMM readers. I may have been drunk or just out of practice when I posted this.
Actually I think I was at work so the drunk part would probably be unlikely.
Haven't seen it, haven't read it. Not so much into the crying recently.
But her dress is the same shade, and almost same style as my year 12 formal dress.
Keira looks a damn sight better than I ever did though, even at 18.
Bummer.
I didn't get the same feeling of desperation at their seperation either, killerrabbit. But I definitely cried. There were definitely tears.
(PS: Glad you found a photo of that green dress!)
Atonement was pretty good; it looked and felt a lot like Pride and Prejudice… come to think of it, both movies have the same director, leading lady, both are based on books and both take place in England
i wonder: Is Briony's vocabulary typical for British 13 year olds?
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