Watching "Atonement" is like getting on a thrilling ride that ends too soon, that's what I tought when I first saw it 2 years ago.
Director Joe Wright did the most amazing job with this movie; locations, clothes, everything was perfect. I love how ... (read more) Watching "Atonement" is like getting on a thrilling ride that ends too soon, that's what I tought when I first saw it 2 years ago.
Director Joe Wright did the most amazing job with this movie; locations, clothes, everything was perfect. I love how he plays with light and sounds, that's something you don't happen to see often at the movie theatre these days... Wright is special from this point of view.
THAT long shot on the beach is the best I've ever seen... everytime I watch it I wonder how did he and the actors managed to shoot a 6 minutes long scene; and that's far from being an easy scene... it tells so much about sofference, war, nature, feelings... I love that, it's just perfect.
All the carachters are able to reach the audience, at the end of the movie you can tell a lot that is not said about them.
Actors Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan did a great job. They did all manage to take and act in difficult roles...
I cannot avoid mentioning the beautiful, peculiar, deeply inspired soundtrack composed by Dario Marianelli. He really deserved the Oscar he won for this masterpiece, a mix of classical music and something new, that fits so well in this awesome movie... his soundtrack somehow gives rhytm to "Atonement", which runs around a typing machine. After all it all started because of a "wrong" message wrote with a typewriter.
The biggest peculiarity in this movie is that conversations aren't the most important part in here; if you watch "Atonement" again, or more closely, you'll notice that the main scenes are all non-spoken scenes (or with jsut few dialogues). We understand the main plot from some wanted silence... beautiful over any words.

Beautiful & heartbreaking. Love me some James McAvoy.

Taidokas! Jokainen kuva taynna tunnetta ja merkitysta.

Lástima que sea un melodrama porque es muy bueno, con secuencias magníficas y un montaje original.

I found this film to be intellegent, beautiful, and poignant. It calls to my mind the saying "believe none of what you hear and half of what you see." I definitely feel compelled to go out and read the novel, for if the film adaptation is powerful en... (read more) I found this film to be intellegent, beautiful, and poignant. It calls to my mind the saying "believe none of what you hear and half of what you see." I definitely feel compelled to go out and read the novel, for if the film adaptation is powerful enough to move me to tears, the book must be even better.

The story was good and I enjoyed how the story jumped from one character to another and from one time to another. Very good story and great acting.

Done-in by his own self-importance, Wright overwhelms the story's personal tragedy with extravagant depictions of his love triangle's different fates.

I hardly believed a word of it.

The film is absorbing and evocative.

It's some kind of miracle. Written, directed and acted to perfection, Atonement sweeps you up on waves of humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance.