Atonement (2007)

the best film adaption of novel in recent years!!! Ian McEwan's Atonement is quite a tough job for directors to transform into a film and Joe Wright did it again!!! he's soooo brilliant.


the story about the disillusioned Robbie Turner who was falsely accused and stripped of his social status just because Briony Tallis told a lie.
"You don't have to be 18 to own up a lie." heard something similar in the film. and actually it's really a shame for her not to own up that lie until she's 80! the ending is sooo devastating both in the book and the film. I cried when I read the book and watched the movie, and the book is the first book that i've ever cried about.

"Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame."

the music score is really nicely done. really want to buy a copy of it to fill up my emptiness before the DVD comes out. pls make it faster. i want to watch the movie again. apparently this kind of convoluted storyline is not welcome in hong kong because people don't have the brain to process everything. and what's more, there were more foreigners in the theatre than hongkongers. people simply don't have the patience or the depth to appreciate this type of film.

cinematography 10/10

acting/casting 9/10
music 9/10
ending 9.5/10
dunno who will win the oscars but surely since Joe Wright got so many nominations for this movie in the golden globe, he'll surely be among the oscars list!!!