nice screening but weird story

Rating: 6/10 (30 March 2008)

It is definitely true that Atonement is not a usual movie. Probably, there is not a similar one. Story starts with little girl, Briony, writing a play to welcome her brother. This writing scheme continues through out the movie and makes a perfect combination with typewriter sound based musics of the movie. Beautiful nature of the summer house adds more points to movie. Cecilia, smoking so often, being sassy, maybe arrogant at the beginning turns out to be a very brave woman who is going after her love. With her stunning green dress at the dinner, deserves to take her place in the classic woman characters of cinema. Finally the movie turns back to focusing on Briony's compunction, and makes you expect that she'll find a way to change things into good, somehow. However movie disappoints and ends in a weird way that Briony never acts brave enough and struggles for good.