The coolest movies It has the power to haunt you long after the credits roll. Usually, it’s the brilliant or horrific endings That lights up the final game to permanently imprint these movies in your memory. It’s the final victories or punchlines that make movies and their endings so memorable. the expiation The ending delivers both a victory and a punchline.
throughout expiationWe see two stories. One is blurry about the facts and the other is told in a matter-of-fact way. It’s only during the final moments that we realize we’ve been watching the movie from one perspective the whole time. Briony is the narrator and we are stuck in her reality. This makes expiation More complex and difficult finish. Let’s discuss what happened.
Warning: expiation Spoilers ahead. Proceed with caution.
What happened at the end of Atonement
Briony (Romola Garay) goes to see Cecilia (Keira Knightley) after the wedding of Lola (Juno Temple) and Paul Marshall (Benedict Cumberbatch). She finds Robbie (James McAvoy) living with Cecilia. Briony tries to apologize but Robbie lashes out so Cecilia can take him back.
She also tells them that it was Paul who raped Lola that night. They realize this means he will likely face no consequences for his actions. Ruby then instructs Briony to “write everything down. Just the truth—no rhymes, no embellishments, no adjectives.” He also tells her to leave them alone.
Briony rushes to leave, and then the film cuts to an interview with an older Briony (Vanessa Redgrave). She talks about writing her latest novel, which tells the story of Cecilia and Ruby. it’s called expiation.
She is dying, and this finally gives her the freedom and courage to tell the truth. She says that everything in her version is true except for the part about Robbie and Cecilia reuniting.
They both died before seeing each other again. He died in Dunkirk from blood poisoning in 1940. Months later, Cecilia died from a bomb that destroyed the gas and water mains above the Balham tube station.
“But what sense of hope or satisfaction can the reader derive from such an ending?” For this reason, in expiation She wanted to give them what they missed in life. This is her last act of kindness.
The deaths of Cecilia and Robbie and the end of their story
Because of the death of Robbie and Cecilia, their love story remains unfinished. The story cannot be resumed. They will never be able to continue what was started in the library. There is nothing after that for them. A happy ending is not a possibility… at least not in life. They cannot write their own ending together because death has given them a lonely and tragic ending.
Briony (a teenage Saoirse Ronan) is the catalyst that tears them apart and causes Robbie’s death, since he only recruited to get out of prison. Briony stole their story and indirectly forced an end to his own.
James McAvoy He offers one of his best shows in a expiation, which makes you feel even more his tragic death. Keira Knightley also gives one of the its best offers In this movie, so you want nothing but the best for them.
However, knowing the truth, the ending seems empty. You cannot ignore their truth once you know it. This is not a story with a happy ending, no matter how Briony writes it.
Loss of authorship in atonement
expiation It is all about storytelling, imagination and the roles played by the authors. It is also about their duties to the reader. Do they need to tell an honest story or a compelling story?
the expiation The ending makes it clear that the story unfolding on screen is from Briony’s novel.
In an interview with expiation Author Ian McEwan at École Normale Superior de Lyon (trans Kern International), McEwan discusses writing the novel as if Briony were writing expiation. This makes it difficult to distinguish fact from fiction in the story we’re watching (or reading) unfold. Of course, it’s all fantasy here, but we’re not sure about fantasy in the context of this world.
Briony is an unreliable narrator so we see Robbie’s point of view but we don’t know if these are really his thoughts and memories or if Briony wrote what they are Believes It will be Robbie’s thoughts and memories. However, in the end, it doesn’t really matter. This is very much a story as Briony is constantly writing Robbie’s story for him.
Her actions make it impossible for him to find his way. She convinces herself that he is a sexual deviant and then convinces others to accuse him of rape.
Once again Robbie’s power is taken away to tell his story when his death is not shown. If you pay close attention, when Robbie died, he said, “You won’t hear another word from me, I promise!” He says this to Nettle (Daniel Mays), but it’s also a signal to the audience that this is where Robbie’s story and his supposed perspective ends.
Then we hear Brioni’s typewriter. She again becomes the author of Robbie’s story – to change his future. As the writer, she holds all the power. Its function is to be either honest or optimistic. Hope chose to blind her reader (we/the audience) to what really happened.
She lets her imagination, once again, rule the narrative, once again stealing something from Ruby and Cecilia. She takes away from them the power to tell their story, due to her role in their deaths.
Did Briony atone for her crimes?
Ian McEwan said this in the same interview at the Ecole Normale Superior de Lyon expiation is “a novel by other writers. A book about the moral responsibilities of imagination, if there is any at all.” It is also mentioned in a Penguin Publishers advantage over expiation That “Bryony’s imagination is in her fist,” meaning:
It soon becomes apparent that her imagination was the element that would eventually sour the love between Cecilia and Robbie.
Briony’s crime is not just that she lied, but that she allowed her imagination to devour her and play with people’s lives. She makes a good author but she ruins other people’s lives. Her way to atone for these sins is to tell the truth. However, she isn’t quite telling the truth, so she sees her penance as giving Robbie and Cecilia a happy ending, and giving readers what she stole from the lovers.
In my opinion, by giving them a happy ending doesn’t seem like an act of kindness, as you might hope. Instead, she seems to want to cleanse herself of her sins by giving her a happy ending, despite her actions. However, this is not realistic or fair to them. They deserve the whole truth.
Saoirse Ronan gives one of its best offers Like Briony. It’s so good that it makes it easy for you to hate a kid.
Ian McEwan doesn’t consider her a bad person, and neither do I. She is a confused little girl after all. However, her story shows the importance of authorship. It is the power of being able to tell one’s own story and not letting someone impose a story on you, or borrow your story and modify it as they see fit.
Whether Briony’s account atones for her crimes depends on what she values in story and storytelling: Does a hopeful happy ending make up for a tragic journey or should the truth be told, skeletons, destruction and all?
expiation It can be easily added to a list Best romantic movies, although (or perhaps because of) the lack of a happy ending. It’s packed with great performances and an unforgettable love story, which I think is one of the The best movies to stream on HBO Max now. the The ending adds to the film’s legacy and makes Cecilia and Robbie’s story tragic, but in a beautiful way.
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