Atonement | James McAvoy and Keira Knightley's Happy Ending

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11 ай бұрын

Briony Tallis (Vanessa Redgrave) uncovers the real destiny of Robbie (James McAvoy) and Cecilia (Keira Knightley), confessing a lifetime of remorse.
Film Synopsis:
From the award-winning director of Pride and Prejudice comes a stunning, critically acclaimed epic story of love. When a young girl catches her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will irrevocably change the course of all their lives forever. Academy Award® nominee Keira Knightley and James McAvoy lead an all-star cast in the film critics are hailing "the year's best picture" (Thelma Adams, US Weekly).
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@morganwhite2176 6 ай бұрын

Everyone on here saying she isn’t sincere, has not studied the book on a scholarly level. I teach it at University. She writes them a happy ending because it’s the only atonement she can possibly come up with, after sacrificing her whole life in nursing and throwing away any chance she had for happiness herself out of guilt. We are not meant to love the character, but it was written to see who can get off their high horse and understand how a mistake by a child can impact and break everyone’s life, including their own. Runner up to the booker prize, so well written. Meant to be soul searching for all of us. Think about your own lives, the timing, if you had not been so lucky to be able to turn around all of your own mistakes. Thats what it’s about.

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

The ending made sense to me in a sobering way. You could say I'd come into the light of a stark truth. Whenever a grand lie that was used to carry the day and night is dashed to pieces I feel awakened. That they never really met was very refreshing to me. The works of art, like this, that dare to rip the very core of its alleged heart and expose itself, inspire me. They inspire me to ask myself, how many grand lies have you lived by, Dan? How many fabrications have you held to your heart for so long you began to believe them and live by them? It's sobering when I've stopped my drudge of stomping through the days for just a moment to really ask myself that question.

@VV-nz4dv 6 ай бұрын

thanks. how can people miss the point of the book when it is on the title. She made a terrible mistake that haunted her all her life and could not find peace ever because of what she did. rather than judge the character i think we're meant to empathize with them.

@davejlh4988 6 ай бұрын

I agree with you and I always felt that the one way they could have conveyed her guilt and sincerity more convincingly was to make this scene far more emotional, which is typically what usually happens in a film like this and I have always wondered whether they filmed other versions of this scene where the actor was far more visibly upset. However I actually think the stoicism displayed by the actor is what makes it so convincing, partly because I have always been in awe of the way that generation were able to deal with such tragedy so stoically. Also I feel that as a nurse she has truly realised the horrors of war and although her jealous mistake as a child had such awful consequences she has come to realise that they were all ultimately victims of the war itself.

@SanFranDentist94301 5 ай бұрын

Sorry, but there was something grievously wrong with as a child. Ok, so you teach lit, what do you know about childhood development? See, the question isn't *would most children tell a lie like that*? Hmm, occasionally yes. The question is *COULD most children maintain a lie like that*? And the answer is an emphatic and underlined 'no'. At some point way before old age their innate sense of right or extreme guilt would win out and they would tell... somebody. It is because of her vascular dementia that her ego vs just ness struggle has finally come to its long delayed end. This is not uncommon for cluster b types. The narc, sociopath grows old and becomes a delight to live with. Indeed a "second childhood". She's a sociopath who's simply been healed by time.

@SuperFosterMom 5 ай бұрын

@@SanFranDentist94301are you aware this is fiction

@Varekai0723 8 ай бұрын

This ending is like a sledgehammer to your gut. Absolutely devastating.

@trinaq 11 ай бұрын

This ending ripped me apart the first time I watched it, and still continues to do so to this very day. 💔😿

@zarayaneva 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely accurately put - it tears you, kinda like I would imagine if a bomb blew up near you, the shock, confusion, pain...

@zanderxander3581 7 ай бұрын

It’s so very sad

@pumkinpie27 7 ай бұрын

Same 😢 . The only thing I could do is take that ending in the book as them together on the other side. Agony of love.

@realme-pw2lc 6 ай бұрын

same. It's the fact that what she did was so hurendous yet she gets to live the life she doesn't deserve.

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

@vpalos 6 ай бұрын

One thing I realised after seeing the end revelation that the meet they had was only from Briony's imagination, is that - had they lived - I think they would have forgiven her instantly and would have never held a grudge. They way they acted when Briony asked for forgiveness was simply her own way of punishing herself by imagining them being harsh with her. In reality, I think they both never hated her.

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

@annav2648 5 ай бұрын

I love your comment, so insightful. I like to think that as well from now on

@AT-jm4dl 3 ай бұрын

Whoa...what? I just finished the book. Is it possible that the next to last chapter of the book was all a figment of Briony's imagination? She never met up with Cece and Billy in London and apologized go them? Very interesting take. Now I'm going to be thinking about his for a while.

@asmrcarousel Ай бұрын

She couldn’t forgive herself so she couldn’t have them forgive her, not even in her fiction. It shows how miserable she was about the role she played in their tragedy.

@evakorpa 6 ай бұрын

Watching this movie for the first time absolutely devastated me. After a few years I decided to watch it again and after the ending I was like "Why did I do this to myself again"?

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

@wingberry123 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking of rewatching it. I loved the chemistry between Keira and James here. Then, I remembered how much I disliked Saoirse's role here. I think I'll put a hold on watching it again.

@lizziebkennedy7505 2 ай бұрын

It never goes away

@lizziebkennedy7505 2 ай бұрын

@@wingberry123but Briony is a full, authentic character

@kn5715 Ай бұрын

I watched this film when it came out. I wondered out of the cinema in a shocked daze and cried all the way home. I told myself I could never watch this film again because of how devastating it was.

@annafrese 5 ай бұрын

It took me 10 years and a couple of other amazing Saoirse's roles to actually forgive her for Atonement. I could not separate her from the character, I avoided her for as long as I could. My heart was wrecked.

@minuit6305 3 ай бұрын

You mean the actress?

@gaydoo7171 3 ай бұрын

Сирша... Я посмотрела практически все её роли задолго до просмотра Искупления.., я заново полюбила работу в Бруклин" и все ирландские, шотландские песни и актеры . И конечно радовалась как ребенок, когда увидела в клипе Эдвардом Шираном.

@GrumpyDynamo 2 ай бұрын

I liked her in grand Budapest

@Hatsepari Ай бұрын

Same. I knew it from the start that's simply, purely outstanding performance, but still, I had a really hard time to wrap it up in my head and forgive Saoirse, and Juno (Lola) as well. I was so furious, a nonverbal, dead silent rage. I had to force myself to watch their other movies to find an excuse to forgive and forget them, to let things go. And I'm glad I did. However... it took almost all my courage to watch this movie again recently. It's so beautiful, but also desperately haunting, and it's so hard, so hard to hold up my tears. I sobbed, uncontrollably, each time those pale blue eyes reflects mine.

@Perhaps064 Ай бұрын

Image how I feel when Benedict Cumberbach was cast as Dr Strange.

@cradle177 6 ай бұрын

It’s crazy how a lie can change and ruin someone’s life. Can’t imagine living with the pain of knowing how you ruined the life of a sibling by being a stupid child.

@lizziebkennedy7505 2 ай бұрын

And his life. Two lives

@Leonnie13 Ай бұрын

This is why “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” is among the 10 Commandments.

@Nopenopenope6969 18 күн бұрын

@@Leonnie13 Ah yes, children have stopped lying entirely since the Bible was inv-

@Leonnie13 17 күн бұрын

@@Nopenopenope6969 My point is that we think lying is no big deal because we don’t often see that it has a ripple effect that can ruin lives. God wants us to understand that even the littlest sin is evil and destructive. But here we are minimizing it again and losing the entire point.

@ranakeen9884 11 күн бұрын

There are a lot of people who tell lies about a person intentionally to hurt them and ruin their lives. I’m being stalked by a narcissist who has told god only knows what lies in order to harm me personally and financially for decades now. I am absolutely certain they feel no remorse whatsoever for the damages they inflicted on me but rather, delight and revel in the pain they have caused me.

@sandysai4350 7 ай бұрын

I was furious with Briony when I read this book as a teenager but only as an adult I realized that she did her best to process the guilt and channeled her grief into writing. What else can you do to make amends for a mistake you made as a child?

@findingkelly 7 ай бұрын

Well, she had many many many years to tell the truth about what she saw. I would.

@zitronentee 7 ай бұрын

@@findingkelly The truth that will also destroy some other lives involved. The fact that everyone involved chose to believe a child's lie and dirtied their hands. On the other hand, Briony never moved on from her guilt.

@findingkelly 7 ай бұрын

@@zitronentee From what I understand, it also seems that they chose to believe a lie, realized they made a mistake, and then turned the other way, but I could be reading into it. The truth is still the truth. However people react to it is their choice.

@tamielynne7374 6 ай бұрын

She was still old enough to know right from wrong as a kid. She was a preteen. And accusing someone of rape is a serious accusation. Even back then it was serious. There is no excuse for her evil behavior.

@sandysai4350 6 ай бұрын

@@tamielynne7374 I disagree. Labeling 13 "preteen" doesn't make her any mature. It was a childish mistake that she repented for in her own way.

@MicaRayan 5 ай бұрын

Keira is so photogenic. The editing were so crisp and I love this movie forever.

@atomicwendy 6 ай бұрын

this film is devastating. it hurts, deeply.

@innocentnemesis3519 6 ай бұрын

I’m here crying 🤧🥲

@KK-fi6ms 6 ай бұрын

Atonement is one my most beloved movies that I never watched a second time. I could not bear it. Not only was it a cinematic masterpiece, it also introduced me to some of my favorite actors - James Mc Avoy, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juno Temple, all of whose careers I continue to follow. I would include Kiera Knightly, but I already knew her from Bend It Like Beckham.

@lizziebkennedy7505 2 ай бұрын

Have you read the book

@theo67-ft3yx 6 ай бұрын

Vanessa Redgrave is captivating in this snippet. Definitely want to watch the movie now.

@cartergirl3of3 4 ай бұрын

Don't do it, it will destroy you! haha

@nasraali8801 6 ай бұрын

I still haven't forgiven Saorise Ronan for this and I don't think I ever will LMAO she's too good an actress

@LayllasLocker 6 ай бұрын

Same lol XD

@ayumis5452 6 ай бұрын

as much as I admire her acting ability today, I still slightly dislike her because of Atonement😂

@kepecos 6 ай бұрын

Watch The Lovely Bones and you'll forgive her anything.

@nasraali8801 6 ай бұрын

@@kepecos oh i’ve seen it. unfortunately i watched this movie a while after and she pisses me off to this day lol. love her movies but sometimes i remember atonement and then get upset all over again 😭

@kepecos 6 ай бұрын

@@nasraali8801 absolutely agreed! Such amazing actors truly become and embody the villains they play, which means they are just super good at their jobs. AND, seeing good actors behave in such horrible and say such horrible things is so difficult to bear because to us, they ARE that horrible character!!!

@jackiep594 5 ай бұрын

Life is pitiless, and that is why we have writing: rhymes and metaphor and beauty to make up for the failure of reality

@surette2012 Ай бұрын

Yep. even art can’t seem to clean the bleakness and suffering off of itself. The Harsh truth is always there.😭 art is gilded and trying to make sense of itself, life doesn’t have that sense and pattern we wish it did.

@user-op7uc6jb9k 10 күн бұрын

This movie was incredibly underrated. In my opnion a master piece of beauty and pain.

@LizC-ef4jo 6 ай бұрын

Yes, the ending is a real revelation - and changes everything we thought we (the reader) knew - as the author obviously intended. To me, the fictional meeting between the protagonists while, in one sense a "lie", in another sense, is wholly true - it's a testament to the power & healing of Art, in the face of the unbearable suffering of Reality.

@rhanedsd 10 ай бұрын

This movie just killed me. All of it sad, depressing, with mcavoy's character finding the school girls in the forest., then the authors fateful admision. Blimey. Makes bawl just thinking about it

@K1rkles 6 ай бұрын

blimey

@lenawalters1866 6 ай бұрын

When we are children we see "truth" as one solid thing that will save everything, fix everything, make everything right. Briony realized, too late, that her truth was wrong but more then that, it was accepted so readily as truth by everyone else because it was convenient and easy for the family. Truth and evidence and slippery in real life, readily misconstrued, misunderstood, dismissed. The more she tried to write the truth, the more authentic she tried to make the story, the less like a story it became. Because in real life there are no arcs and patterns, no foreshadowing, no catharsis. In real life people get accused of crimes they didn't commit and don't receive justice, lovers are parted and never reunited, despicable people never get their comeuppance. And so she chose to make a narrative choice as an author and write a more memorable story to strive for and not the real thing that happened. Something i feel was an interesting choice, the event that killed Cecilia is real, Balham station did flood due to the Blitz but the date is wring (both in the books and the film). This wiuld have been very easy to research so i think it was intentional. It shows really that there is no such thing as a perfectly researched bit of fiction that reflects reality. Reality you remember is not the reality someone else remembers. Its not the reality someone chooses to remember. We are all stuck living with the choices me made in a reality of our own. Briony's atonement is her whole life living with this fact and the realization that she will never convince the world of it. So instead she chose to fictionalize it. Ironically it's what children do when they play. When some game or a story doesn't go their way they shout "redo" and start over. Create a better end. She made a mistake in childhood, spent her adult life unable to fix it and in the end reached into childhood to process it. There are some things we can't fix.

@innocentnemesis3519 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful summary.

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

The ending made sense to me in a sobering way. You could say I'd come into the light of a stark truth. Whenever a grand lie that was used to carry the day and night is dashed to pieces I feel awakened. That they never really met was very refreshing to me. The works of art, like this, that dare to rip the very core of its alleged heart and expose itself, inspire me. They inspire me to ask myself, how many grand lies have you lived by, Dan? How many fabrications have you held to your heart for so long you began to believe them and live by them? It's sobering when I've stopped my cycles of living through the days for a moment to really ask myself that question.

@GerardGordon-bu9gf 5 ай бұрын

That was a brilliant summary, truly! There are things that are unfixable and we use fantasy to escape that painful truth .

@indigocheetah4172 Күн бұрын

An excellent précis. , thank you.

@DarkWingsAscending 6 ай бұрын

this movie broke me. I haven't been able to watch it again.

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

@AnnCronin-ds6pu Ай бұрын

My favourite book. Also the long single continuous beach shot in the movie is outstanding. The men singing still touches my soul every time I rewatch.

@susanahoakenshield1293 6 ай бұрын

What an art Vanessa Redgrave has!

@user-wx3ii4gh9v 12 күн бұрын

Old school, they don't make them like this anymore. She has class, style and SO much depth to her method.

@adelemcg69 6 ай бұрын

Crying watching it now. This ending broke me when I first watched the movie and continues to do so......

@fullcomicalchemist2195 6 ай бұрын

What I love about this is you can see it as the book ending vs the real life ending but also as how they're souls ended up in heave, the spirit world, they beyond however you choose to see it.

@iamsherlocked345 Ай бұрын

The book ending is oddly different but equally heartbreaking…

@franniej.3110 9 ай бұрын

This movie will stay with me forever

@merlin9943 6 ай бұрын

And if it had been a truly happy ending, it never would have.

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

@mmichelle4082 6 ай бұрын

a girl who got jealous cause the person she liked (who was way older then her) liked her sister instead. So out of jealously she ruined his life, despite seeing the mans actual face, she blamed her crush for a horrible crime. Didn't even try to own up to it later to set things right, until its too late since the victim married her abuser, meaning she wouldn't say anything against him now. THEN she all the sudden "remembers" Waiting until everyone around her or involved died then finally shared her secret with the world so she would forever be connected to her crush some way even if it's sick/twisted. What makes it even more sick is she thinks she did something by "giving" them a happy ending in her book. I hate her.

@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire 6 ай бұрын

A child who made all the wrong decisions, and a woman who lacked the courage to set it right

@bigsistahtips 6 ай бұрын

To me it makes sense the book was written by a man. Most men think women envy other women and do stupid shit because of it. Yeah, women make mistakes, but not because we are envious or jealous, but because we're human.

@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire 6 ай бұрын

@@bigsistahtips you say that but envy and jealousy are very human emotions

@bigsistahtips 6 ай бұрын

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire who said they weren't. I'm saying most men only attribute these sentiments to women and also use them as a source of any wrongdoing.

@misspriss2482 5 ай бұрын

@@bigsistahtips True, but just about every wrong done to me by a woman was out of envy and this has been at different stages in my life. I've known several immature bitches. Perhaps that is what a lot of male authors are drawing from. Most men don't see women as competition hence they tend to be assholes for different reasons.

@julianleft4662 5 ай бұрын

5:59 what a moment and the cinematography + the incredible score by Marianelli... and then at 6:29 ... that seagul sound perfectly dropped in the high note... Just genius stuff.

@ckotcher1 5 ай бұрын

Makes me cry everytime. I had a similar childhood where I was separated from my soulmate around the same age as these two. We met at 15 and 16 and torn apart by early 20’s. We never got the happy ending we so longed for 💔😞 And I’ve never loved like that again. We were both young and beautiful like Keira and James only we both had blonde hair. We also didn’t suffer melodramatic betrayals by siblings and separated by war and death.. to me that’s almost more “romanticized”. Luke a Hemingway novel. No we were separated not by death, but by life. But gutted nonetheless and never really got over it. We are both single and alone now. I never married or had kids…. Maybe in the next life God Will have the happy ending we both so longed for and deserved.

@phylosikos 5 ай бұрын

Marry that man now!

@blue7lvn245 Ай бұрын

Why did life separate yall

@ckotcher1 Ай бұрын

@@blue7lvn245 great… I just left you a super long reply, and poured my heart out and fuc’ing KZfaq won’t let me send it. 😡😡😡😡 there’s 20 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. FU S C R E W TUBE

@theogusat7968 6 ай бұрын

From Romania here. We studied this novel as sophomores for the postmodern courses, the narrator as not being reliable. A child not being familiar with the art of erotica, turned from "I heard" to "I saw". A child's testimony can be very dangerous, watch "The Hunt" with Mads Mikkelsen.

@Slow-wipe 11 ай бұрын

Absolute brilliant piece of acting

@user-pb8yw8cw3s 12 күн бұрын

She devastated them in reality and decided to be kind with them in her book...this is how some people would think to get away from their crime.

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

@WomanNextDoor 3 ай бұрын

One of my favorite books. The ending was a heartbreaking conclusion to a superbly written story. Time to read it again methinks.

@davidmcconnell5658 6 ай бұрын

Shakespeare famously wrote in Sonnet 18: "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." The point being that immortality is captured in words: the ending of this film and brilliant novel is like this because goes back to a classical notion which it seems a lot have missed. The idea of an ending like this to give these two lovers what they did not have in life, is in fact, the greatest gift possible: "a final act of Kindness." That sums up her thinking: it is an act of love which is seeking "Atonement" for the past, by writing the Truth of Love between them. It is truly a powerful and beautiful ending to a film which has such deep tragedy. It is a realization that our lives should always be about Love in the deepest sense even when the past haunts us. I hope this helps everyone understand this just a little bit better. Pax et Bonum.

@humbletrini7778 7 ай бұрын

What happy ending? She made it up, I've never hated a fictional character so much. After reading the part that they never met again as a child I cried for days.

@watervillegangmember 6 ай бұрын

My bf at the time and I saw this movie in a theatre. When this stupid ending was revealed we both actually said "wtf" out loud. It is a terrible ending. She destroys two people's lives. Had plenty of chances to set the record straight as she got older but never did. I hate this character and ending.

@DeepScreenAnalysis 6 ай бұрын

She was just a child. Get a grip.

@takeonedaily 6 ай бұрын

@@DeepScreenAnalysis This is what happens when women aren't held accountable. This is a red pill film.

@aleksandra2003 6 ай бұрын

@@DeepScreenAnalysis She was a bad child.

@DeepScreenAnalysis 6 ай бұрын

@@aleksandra2003 she was a fantasist child, who had trouble separating reality and fiction. She was a danger to others and to herself because of her own imagination.

@CS-er3ib 6 ай бұрын

I revisit the movie often. It's beautifully depressing.

@marlenedufour4744 25 күн бұрын

The casting of this movie is absolutely amazing, And for once they respect the colors of the eyes👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@guzinmusic 11 ай бұрын

What a movie! this one hits different💔

@heshannileesha3664 7 ай бұрын

Atonement 2007

@joeofmacabre07 6 ай бұрын

@@heshannileesha3664 he/she is not asking what movie is this, you know

@pamelawright9670 9 ай бұрын

How would film makers cope without those cottages at Birling Gap in East Sussex? They have featured in so many films!

@nottycm5010 7 ай бұрын

Same with Shere in Surrey.

@MsThebeagle Ай бұрын

I’ve watched Atonement once - having just watched the ending again…it’s devastating 😭

@HumanCredential 5 ай бұрын

“I gave them their happy ending”. No, Briony, no you didn’t. You helped ensure they would never get one. This line alone shows that no matter how much time spent with her guilt, trying to atone for what she did, she never truly changed who she was from the inside. She’s still a narcissist. She makes this about her. Throughout the entire film, every action she takes, whether it is in service of trying to help Cee and Robbie, or wounded soldiers, or her abused cousin, it’s still completely centered around Briony herself. Fitting that she became an author. People are complex, and she’s certainly not evil. However, she is deeply self centered, and she’s stayed that way at her core. That trait: selfishness, is one that I cannot stand. But the complexity of that was written beautifully by McEwan and portrayed brilliantly by Saoirse, Ramola, and Vanessa. My favourite single story.

@misspriss2482 5 ай бұрын

She gave them the only happy ending she could - in fiction. She was a child when she told that lie and some lies can't be undone.

@Gizisunshine 5 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree.

@hyusuf4280 3 ай бұрын

What a load of sanctimonious bs. Gtfoh.

@yoHUSEIN 26 күн бұрын

Absolutely, her attempt at atonement was just a continuation of her silly childhood notions

@travis2333 6 ай бұрын

Ugh, when it cuts to them on the beach 😭

@Sydney-wh8gq Ай бұрын

Her acting is impeccable 💯

@emmaclean5144 5 ай бұрын

This movie had me sobbing

@billg3356 6 ай бұрын

I wasn't prepared for this movie the first time I saw it.

@lilyscior-lewis7746 5 ай бұрын

HOW does this make me cry without having watched the film or seen the book???

@ottopotomas 6 ай бұрын

oh wow - just noticed this. I've now been living in Balham for 5 years !

@Gizisunshine 5 ай бұрын

I feel no sympathy for her. She gave them nothing, that ending was to make herself feel like she did something, like she told the truth. That ending was for herself not for anyone else. Once again in her imaginative mind she created something that isn’t real just to suit her purposes. Great acting and complex character of course, and I’ve always chosen to think that understanding and forgiving her wasn’t made a mandatory rule for the audience to follow.

@cmonkey63 21 күн бұрын

I remember this ending scene well, and watching it again I wish that I had written it myself as I reach my own autumn years. Lives lived, or not, imagined or not. Such is life.

@indigocheetah4172 Күн бұрын

Précis.

@pudding_uwu 4 ай бұрын

This hurts me in a way I can’t even explain

@conorjames7307 6 ай бұрын

She is tryinf to rationale her guilt, but it feels like she is seeking forgiveness from herself rather than to "give them kindness".

@telecine 6 ай бұрын

Esse filme é tudo pra mim! ❤

@BP-kx2ig Ай бұрын

One of the greatest books I have read. The ending will haunt me forever.

@risk5riskmks93 6 ай бұрын

What a performance!

@katiejohnson202 6 ай бұрын

Favorite movie of all time.

@greenblood64 Ай бұрын

Great movie!

@thehopefuledwardian Күн бұрын

I find it very fitting that Vanessa Redgrave also played a character in a tv adaptation of ‘The Go-Between’, which was apparently an inspiration for ‘Atonement’.

@jdd0815 Күн бұрын

I remember seeing this in a full theatre opening night with my best friend. When Britney reveals the truth and we see the truth, I let out the loudest No! and immediately sobbed. It’s F Briony Tallis forever.

@Rnankn Ай бұрын

The human capacity for delusion is a salvation and a curse, but far more a curse.

@indigocheetah4172 Күн бұрын

Well said.

@szehui9841 6 ай бұрын

One of my favourite movies

@ilsagutrune2372 6 ай бұрын

Powerful

@Spitfiregirl01 4 ай бұрын

This film broke me

@elizabethmendez1350 4 ай бұрын

La mejor escena de la película

@ISEEKSPACE 9 ай бұрын

Even then she wasn't truly sorry. She understood that if she didn't give the readers a happier ending, then it would fail. She was completely malicious and still delusional at thinking she was being kind. She even released it to coincide with her birthday. She was completely narcissistic.

@ck4777 9 ай бұрын

When she said “I gave them their happiness” my blood was boiling. It’s like the title of the story “atonement” is lie. If she thinks creating a delusional fantasy is atoning for destroying the lives of two people in love then she is insane.

@miraeja 9 ай бұрын

i think the novel is more nuanced than this tho the movie could def make her seem like this

@ck4777 9 ай бұрын

@@miraeja I haven’t read the novel admittedly so I’m only basing my thoughts off the movie

@miraeja 9 ай бұрын

@@ck4777 oh was responding to the original commenter. My bad haha but highly recommend book as well!!

@meghanmisaliar 9 ай бұрын

I think you misinterpreted what she meant.

@bobl4419 3 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more with Morgan White..... so well said. It takes great intelligence to get a movie like this and to actually get it They could not have possibly cast a better person in the role than Vanessa Redgrave to play Briny at the end. Bob L

@margaridacosta270 2 ай бұрын

I am very cold person but these ending breaks you,i almost cry.

@raechelcleberg8854 3 күн бұрын

Broke my heart.

@mindakahn9964 5 ай бұрын

This is a beautifully written and executed film. But there’s no happy ending. Saorise Ronan is showing the revelation of performance.

@aydenkelly6274 18 күн бұрын

I thought Briony's claim about "giving them their happiness" was just another evasion: she centred herself in every instance and, in the book, presented her character as having courageously atoned for the wrong she had done them as a child, when actually she had lacked the courage and missed the opportunity to do it in real life.

@TrueWalker88 2 ай бұрын

This movie still breaks my heart after 17 years. The only solace I get is that they both died at the same time, and imagining that they found each other in the spirit world.

@Marianna-si2yj 2 ай бұрын

This movie Is heartbreaking.. I hated the sister and the other 2 for all the evil they do to Robbie and Cecilia

@yanina.korolko Ай бұрын

That was a sad film, I remember...yes, sad. War should NOT happen!

@wendywheeler9344 16 күн бұрын

It's NOT a happy ending! It's a fantasy that the guilty person makes to help her cope with the evil she did.

@Bozokunitedkingdom 2 ай бұрын

Total abuse of human emotions.

@wanderer3004 6 ай бұрын

You'll see what you will and not much else.

@Ru136 7 ай бұрын

I thought that was Maggie Smith on the thumbnail

@spaniard_flower2539 3 ай бұрын

A love story more tragic than Romeo and Juliet. The last scene if the two of them walking by the shore is hauntingly beautiful....

@thehopefuledwardian 6 ай бұрын

The first time I watched this I had also just watched The Book Thief and the impact of them both together was something. This film actually scares me because of the moral weight it carries. Like, I’m so scared I’m going to mess up in a huge way and wreck lives including my own. This ending has stuck with me, I’ve quoted it in a book I’m working on at the moment.

@LizC-ef4jo 6 ай бұрын

Art vs life; Real vs Ideal ...

@Bootmahoy88 6 ай бұрын

@vars280287 2 ай бұрын

The novel was her atonement. She gave them the happy ending they deserved which was taken from them by her mistake.

@sueprice3315 Ай бұрын

but she didn't really "give them a happy ending" in real life. That's the wording (her wording) that I have a problem with. She wrote fiction. She couldn't atone, couldn't give them a happy ending. I sympathize that it's been hard for her to live with that.

@rayedd74 2 ай бұрын

better than Dune 2.

@asmrcarousel Ай бұрын

This ending killed me. But I feel such compassion for Brionny. She is obviously utterly miserable because of that stupid awful lie as a child, and she had to bear a terrible burden of guilt for the events that came of it. I don’t know how anyone can feel anything but compassion for her.

@ameliafarley9087 6 ай бұрын

If she truly was sorry for what she had done she wouldn't have changed Robbie and Cecilia's ending, because it shouldn't have mattered what the readers thought or whether the book did well.

@stardusth2o 6 ай бұрын

Well, I mean in the scene she’s giving an interview and publicly acknowledging what actually happened. She’s admitting to what she’s done, so it’s not that she’s denying her guilt. Her writing a happy ending for Cecilia and Robbie is the only way she could think to “atone” for her actions as a child and “give” them the chance at happiness that she stole from them all those years ago.

@indigocheetah4172 Күн бұрын

She still has not changed, she is a narcissist.

@sarnieken 6 ай бұрын

I hated Briony's character for her part in everything but I can see where the domino effect of the incidents and her naivety took her. She should / could still have nade it right though much, much sooner.

@Jazz41173 6 ай бұрын

Nope, sorry. You didn't give them anything but sorrow. You destroyed their lives out of spite. Until they died horrible deaths. While you went on to write your little stories and become rich and famous into old age. Even now when you are dying you don't truly atone.

@GKFF9872 5 ай бұрын

I’m not gonna lie, this movie was so good that it made me hate Saoirse Ronan. For years after when I would see her in other movies, I’d be like “that b*tch”. Even though objectively I knew that wasn’t actually her. That’s how good she was as an actress, how good the other actors were, and how amazing this story actually is.

@CatherineSellick 6 ай бұрын

In what way ??

@lipsabajpai552 6 ай бұрын

I separated my orphan friend jasleen kaur from her boyfriend bcoz he was bad but sadly she never forgived me and left

@blue7lvn245 Ай бұрын

She is not atoned for her sin!

@JaimeGirl 6 ай бұрын

The book and the movie always make me furious, because if Briony had just ASKED her sister what she was doing with Robbie, just ASKED a DAMN QUESTION, it would have been all avoided.

@kerrysmith7598 6 ай бұрын

isnt a novel fiction?

@Richardsonprincess00 11 күн бұрын

Thinking it was...

@kitkat261 12 күн бұрын

She kept the same hairstyle her whole life lol

@TheRockaholic1 6 ай бұрын

Why do i see dame maggie smith

@starlight6865 14 күн бұрын

guess what ppl!! Actress and character are different ppl ;p

@jairayne 6 ай бұрын

Ima be honest I didn’t even watch the full movie once dude was taken in handcuffs and the next scene he was in the army or something I turned to off. Brionys character just blew me

@CS-er3ib 6 ай бұрын

He should reconsider watching it. It's a starkly depressing movie but well worth subjecting yourself to it.

@indigocheetah4172 Күн бұрын

I will not watch it again.