But in the name of understanding …
I did not cry while watching the movie Atonement – but the Chinese young girl next to me who was clinging like a vine to her Ozzie boyfriend, and comfortably wrapped herself with a beach towel and sitting comfortably feets up on the chairs like it was her own private movie lounge, was sobbing to death on the part where Robbie, the lead character, was sentenced to jail and then later conscripted to the army. So I started sobbing with her and shared my tissue papers which I kept handy for my colds. She showed me her tears and I showed her my crocodile’s too…
The movie is about those irrepressibly small mistakes we do in our lives which could trigger chains of events that change our lives forever. Like those promising kids who died of accidents, and those young lovers forever in love and separated. And then you would start thinking - - if only the right letter was sent, if only the young girl was not that stubborn or selfish enough, if only the parents were not divorcing so as not to leave their children (the cousins) prey to other strangers’ desires and weaknesses, if only … blah, blah, blah ….
But I do love Keira Knightly in that emerald flowing gown - the small details at the start of the film and the way things are unfolding and refolding back and forth … and the ending with Vanessa Redgrave’s recount of her story is like looking and touching totally healed wounds of the past.
Hmmm. I might really have to read the book …
I’d probably get the book before watching it because the novel will have better descriptions pero I want to see Keira! Oh, I cry in movies too.
This movie has been making waves lately. Could this be this year’s Academy Best Picture? I better have to watch the movie to find out.
Chika lang che!
i love your blog. i hope to see that film, too. i liked pride and prejudice.
but did you like the movie?
I totally just glanced through your blog, because I have yet to see Atonement and I cant let ruin the surprise…but if you and your new movie friend cried…I know it’s gotta be good!