An excellent WWII romance/unsolved mystery story

Rating: 10/10 (11 February 2008)

Joe Wright (the BAFTA Award-winning director of Pride & Prejudice), has reunited with his film-making team and his Academy Award-nominated actress, Keira Knightley (one of my favorite actresses), for another classic British romance, starring James McAvoy as her leading man. I had read the original novel and I thought it is a good W.W.II romance/unsolved mystery story.
I would quiver and twitch during the suspension in the film, like when Briony saw Robbie (her crush) and Cecilia (her older sister) by the fountain. And also when she read the letter written with sadistic-perverted undertones when in reality it was a second draft that Robbie deemed to silly to use. Briony assumes that Robbie is a nymphomaniac and it is with this notion that she accuses Robbie with the rape of Cecilia, but really they were making love...HEL-LO! she's only 13, she shouldn't see that! So overall, my last word is that this is an great film to see.