Relationships In Atonement
Atonement is a romantic war drama based on a book by Ian McEwan. The film takes place in england during 1935. The Tails Family resides in a eccentric upper-class english house where Briony, a young thirteen year old girl and her older sister Cecilia grew up. Robbie Turner, the housekeepers son also resides. Falsely accused Robbie Turner of sexually assaulting her fifteen year old cousin Lola. Robbie is then arrested, and sent to prison. Briony’s sister, Cecilia has a romantic relationship with Robbie, however because they are in different social circles, their relationship is a secret. When briony reads a letter from robbie to cecilia she thinks that Robbie is a “sex maniac”; she is too young to understand the dynamics of their relationship.
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He is then sent to France to be apart of the BET, he is headed to the coast with two other soldiers. Cecilia had broken with her family and decided to become a nurse. Briony, now eighteen has also become a nurse, while writing a story about the horrific injustice. Briony eventually meets with Cecilia and Robbie, who refuse to forgive her. Though it seems unlikely that Robbie's verdict can be overturned, she promises to retract her statement before an official witness, to tell their parents, and to write them a full account of what she did and why. She also tells them that Paul Marshall has married Lola, and that it was almost certainly he who raped her. Cecilia and Robbie do not forgive her, since she did ruin their lives and it's hard to get past that. But there is some sense of reconciliation. However this never really happened. The movie ends with an elderly Briony being interviewed after the publication of her 21st novel, which is an autobiographical novel. She then speaks about how she didn't have the courage to go speak to Cecilia and Robbie-- and that she never could. Robbie had died from septicaemia that was caused by his injury on the beaches of Dunkirk, a couple months prior to the “meeting” and Cecilia had died from the bomb that destroyed the gas and water mains above Balham Underground station. The whole premise of the movie is to show briony and her quest for atonement.
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He is then sent to France to be apart of the BET, he is headed to the coast with two other soldiers. Cecilia had broken with her family and decided to become a nurse. Briony, now eighteen has also become a nurse, while writing a story about the horrific injustice. Briony eventually meets with Cecilia and Robbie, who refuse to forgive her. Though it seems unlikely that Robbie's verdict can be overturned, she promises to retract her statement before an official witness, to tell their parents, and to write them a full account of what she did and why. She also tells them that Paul Marshall has married Lola, and that it was almost certainly he who raped her. Cecilia and Robbie do not forgive her, since she did ruin their lives and it's hard to get past that. But there is some sense of reconciliation. However this never really happened. The movie ends with an elderly Briony being interviewed after the publication of her 21st novel, which is an autobiographical novel. She then speaks about how she didn't have the courage to go speak to Cecilia and Robbie-- and that she never could. Robbie had died from septicaemia that was caused by his injury on the beaches of Dunkirk, a couple months prior to the “meeting” and Cecilia had died from the bomb that destroyed the gas and water mains above Balham Underground station. The whole premise of the movie is to show briony and her quest for atonement.
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