Monday, October 27, 2008

Did anyone see the movie

Atonement? Not a church flick. Won a bunch of awards. I hated it the first time I saw it because I didn't understand it. Second time I watched it, started to make sense but I still have questions. Anyone?? Anyone??

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dale did not like the name of the movie that is all I remember about it. It looks like my extra car seat and stroller is going to sell on Wednesday! Thanks for the camera Hodgey. Laurie watches a ton of movies maybe she has seen this!

Hodgie said...

Definitions of atonement on the Web:

* compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"
* expiation: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)

The whole movie is about this little girl who was in love with this guy who's mom works as like the cook for this high up family. They sent the son to Cambridge with their daughter (Kiera Knightly) Doesn't show any of that, but something happened while they were in school...and they fell in love. He was supposed to go on to medical school. So brother and cousin come into town. In the mean while he's writing her letter after letter at the cottage telling her how he feels about her. Then writes a dirty letter. He then handwrites a nice letter, but puts the dirty one in the envelope by accident. The little girl who's in love with him, reads the dirty letter..calls him a sex maniac..then walks in on her sister Kiera Knightly and him doing a "deed" in the library. So that night, these twins come up missing. This red head girl that is the twins older sister gets "raped" by a man she marries later. But in the meantime...the little girl says it was Robbie (said she saw him) Robbie shows up at the house later with the twins, and he get one last kiss before they take him away. He serves in Prison for 4 years, then they let him out to be in the war. Kiera Knightly's character disowns her family because Robbie was falsley accused. Both of them end up dying...so the whole movie is based on what would've happened had she been able to tell the truth. Instead sister and Robbie die. She thinks she can make up for her sin by writing a book where they end up together.

The End

Mindy Bush said...

That's so messed up...

Hodgie said...

I know... the whole movie would be, they would show how an action might look to the little sister, but it wasn't what she thought it was when they reenacted it. I'm still confused.

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