Just completed watching atonement.
Loved visuals.
Here's some of the visuals that I loved. (These are just a few)
I was fascinated by the soundtrack, entire background score, how the typing sound evolves to become background music, and becomes part of important force to take the narrative to a next level..
I just loved the narrative structure that keeps going back and forth in time, that reveals things and builds drama, adds layer, and not remains just a trick
I think of this movie as a visual poetry.
I was getting feeling of shakesperean tragedy...
I just loved the way, how beautifully it captures and showcases the feeling of regret.
"The machinist" was one movie in which I loved the portrayal of regret. Then there was "Maqabool" and then this one, in poetry style...
I think, in Nolan's "Odessey" there was struggle to accept the wrong deeds which eventually changes into acceptance.
But atonement differs. It's passion led jealous led revenge which turns into regret and finally into atonement. I think it's not the story of Rabbie or Cecilia. It's the story of Briony and how she deals with her evolved feeling of regret, and how she lives with it, rather than being consumed by it. How she deals with it, and how as a human being she handles it and becomes seasoned human being.
Rabbie dies, Cecilia does, but Briony has to live with the burden of regret. Every human being has to live until the end, but it will be difficult for a human to live with burdens of the pasts. He / she must find a way to deal with the burdens of the pasts and to forgive oneself, not by being ignorant but by evolving oneself and find one's atonement that is liberating.
The last scene, the changed ending is the true liberating atonement for the Briony, which has lifted last installments of weights that she might have carried so far...
P.S. : I felt some similarities between a scene from HDDCS and this movie. The anger of Cecilia, which leads to tension between her and Rabbie, and then passionate reunion. I think, Sanjay Leela Bhansali must have read the novel and he must have been impacted by this particular passionate feeling between the lead characters. I have gut feeling that the novel "Atonement" must have been an inspiration for important part of the HDDCS.
- Abhijit Kadam.
P.P.S. I was wrong. Novel published in 2001 and HDDCS released in 1999. I apologise for being wrong and judgmental.
