Atonement was recommended to me by my acting teacher and my first impression after watching the movie was this has to be one of the best movies of all time! The movie won the BAFTA Award for the best picture and is nominated in the same category(and others) at the Oscars… I will be rooting for it.
Based on a Booker prize nominated novel by the same name, Atonement tells the love story between Cecilia Tallis(Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner(James McAvoy) after Robbie is wrongly accused of a crime by Cecilia’s sister Briony Tallis(Saoirse Ronan). The event destroys the budding romance between the two and changes the lives of those involved.
There is hardly anything flawed in the movie. Acting is possibly the best we saw all of last year… explains why Keira is nominated for the Best Actress statute. Screenplay is simply perfect! The visuals and unfolding of scenes is an artist’s dream… Some of the scenes just left me spellbound! The real winner is how the story is told and how it ends!
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