Atonement (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Brenda Blethyn, Harriet Walter, James Mcavoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse RonanPrimary Contributor: Joe Wright
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Atonement (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: I really did like the beginning-I swear!
Summary: 2 Stars
The first half of the movie is good. The energy is high--the incorporation of the typewriter with the music in the opening...bravo! Well--done... But trust me, it's downhill from there.
This is the most overrated movie of the year! The best it gets is the preview--all of of the good bits are in the preview. What follows Robbie's (James McAvoy's) "capture"--is depression--followed by more depression--then some hope--and then some more depression.
It also really annoyed me how that little girl still wore that same freaking barrett into her 20s and then into her elderly years!! Okay--that;s just retarded...
And the ending? Don't get me started on the ending! I felt completely jipped! I won't ruin it for all of the poor souls--who insist that even after reading this review--to still waste their precious time on Earth on this movie. But the ending sucks--it's worse then the ending of "No Country for Old Men." Yeah, it's that bad. No, I got it! I got it! It's even worse than the ending of "Contact."
DVD Review: Brilliant Film!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a brilliant example where filming--through the music, editing, camera panning & angles, colors, costumes, light positioning, non verbal acting and so on-translated a story to the audience with such depth and palpable emotions that the verbal dialogue and storyline become insignificant.
The meaning of the movie (or what the director translated from the novel) was conveying every nuance of the characters' emotions and distorted perceptions--especially the distorted perceptions of one innocent little girl in discovering sexual encounters she did not understand.
It is a rare gift when a director can make me squirm in my seat every time he tried to show the lurking emotions behind any of the characters expressions--be it lust, debauchery, love, passion, evil, desolation, and the death of innocence and hope.
Yes, it was love story torn apart by a foolish and misinformed child but that was the shallowest part you can grasp from the film. That was barely what the film was trying to convey!
This film was an artistic vision of what most of us experience in our childhood and young adulthood but what we most want to mask and keep hidden behind society's facade and social etiquette; it's about how our ugly yet beautiful realities can shape who we become or how dire those consequences can reach and destroy our whole lives. It's about how our minds can conjure such nasty and ugly thoughts yet at the same time feel beautiful emotions of love and passion. It's a dichotomy of chaos and order filtering in our minds--from spitefulness to atonement, and in our realties--from war to peace.
Consequence and time were also big themes in Atonement. The director showed that numerous times by making the shots have no editing with almost dance-like panning camera movements where the audience would think the time frame was going forward in the story-line when it was really going backward in time. The director also added many slow & fast motion rewinds to several crucial scenes--hence the feeling you get of how important time is in our lives and to try to savor it instead of rushing through it, as well as the serious consequence of not thinking before you act; and how one simple action can change myriad of events throughout one's lifetime.
It leaves you with the sense of how different one little girl's life and a loving couple's story would have been like without that one single letter that sealed their fate into a tragedy.
And in the end, the film conveys how fantasy, dreams and falsehoods may be the only things that can keep us sane and to endure.
This is not to be missed if you share a deep understanding of how through film--and not through dialogue and storyline--a piece of art can be portrayed as a portal of what we humans truly feel and what we hide most dearly in polite society.
Absolutely brilliant!
DVD Review: disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
Considering all the buzz and hype in 2007 I figured this movie would have a lot going for it, but not to be. I barely made it thru the 1st hour and didn't really connect with any of the characters. It's actually quite robotically written and acted. Atonement starts to kick into gear a bit once you realize the foundational storyline, but even then the payoff is limited. A lot of what supposedly makes the movie 'epic' (as advertised) also lacks a sense of reality. The photography is quite good, but that is not nearly enough to make for a good film. Much ado about precious little.DVD Review: A blossom despite tragedy
Summary: 5 Stars
My favorite movies are always the ones that unfold over the next few days as you think about them more and more. The movie "Atonement" is one of those fantastic creations that keeps you thinking about it for days afterward. I have never read the book, but I will definitely make the time to do so now.
The director does an excellent job of pacing the movie through well-planned jumps in time, which allows you to see everyone's perspective as the drama is revealed. Many cultural mores and attitudes are blended into the effortless storyline: Fall from Eden, elitism and prejudice, selfishness, and even some of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. Since I do not want to reveal too much of the movie, I will not say anything more about it except that the director really knows how to show a story and leave you to continue piecing it together long after the movie is over.
My only criticism is actually on the director's commentary (if you listen to such things...I'm oddball enough to watch it when I really like the movie). While I appreciated his comments about "all the kitsch" and "the power of the writer to rewrite the story", it seemed like he was missing a large point of the plot itself: There are some mistakes which can never be repaired no matter how sorry you are...hence the title, Atonement. When we are faced with those situations, all we can do is make the best of it no matter how bad the outcome, and decide what path we will take the next time we see the same situation again. That to me is the difference between Reckoning (nothing learned) and Atonement (taking the experience with you). If you love the movie and decide to listen to the Director's commentary, I recommend giving it at least a few weeks after watching the movie the first time to avoid feeling let down.
DVD Review: The prize of a lie!
Summary: 5 Stars
From time to time,we can enjoy certain films like this, where the the state of art may be felt since the first shot. A shy girl, gifted with the power of the word, who lives literally opressed by the beauty of his elder sister, has born with a vivid imagination, being capable to write her first theater works, but she is deeply immersed into the most Victorian morality and the destiny makes she falls in love with the wrong guy. this brutal reject will lead her to make her own revenge, when she realizes her sister has captured the heart of him.
That dramatic and unfair testimony literally will become a tragic crossroad in the life of these two young lovers.
One of the ten major cinematic works of 2007.
Description of Atonement (Widescreen Edition)
Director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice) gives Ian McEwan's bestselling novel a sumptuous treatment for the screen that should come to be regarded as one of the defining films of the epic romantic drama. Indeed, everything about this film stems from those three words: there is little here that is not epic, romantic, and dramatic, and Atonement is a film that masterfully expresses the overarching sense of adventure and emotion that such stories are meant to convey. In this instance, the story centers around the love story of highborn Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and housekeeper's son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy, in a star-making turn), in England shortly before World War II. Despite their class differences, they are powerfully attracted to each other, and just as their relationship begins Robbie is tragically forced away due to false accusations from Cecilia's younger sister Briony (Saoirse Ronan). She has a crush on Robbie, too, and after reading a private letter he sent to Cecilia, and then witnessing the first expression of their mutual love but mistaking it for mistreatment, her resentment grows until it leads to her telling the lie that will send Robbie away. Soon World War II breaks out; Robbie enlists and is posted to France, Cecilia is a nurse in London, and Briony, now age 18 and aware of what she has done, tries to atone for her actions--but none of them will be able to get back what they have lost. Knightley and McAvoy are perfectly cast as the young star crossed lovers, and the young Ronan is particularly impressive, but it's clear that the real star of this film is the director. Wright allows Atonement to revel in every moment of its story and each scene is compelling in its own way, but that now famous extended shot with Robbie on the beach at Dunkirk--filmed in one take and sure to be considered one of the great long tracking shots in film history--is the most memorable moment in this remarkable film. Atonement is an excellent example of what can happen when a great book meets great filmmaking. This is one that is not to be missed. --Daniel VanciniStills from Atonement (click for larger image).
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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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