Loved the movie, hated the turnout

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2017)

I loved this movie, and I'm not a 'romance' movie person (more drama and horror). The more I thought about it, the more I hated Briony the character. Atonement? Really? Wait until you are an old person, probably every person who could have benefited from the truth is dead,every single person, and now you write the truth? For what exactly? She waited so that anyone who could have cared is dead and gone and can't judge her anymore for lying. And her reason? To give them what they ultimately wanted? That's a pretty picture in her head to justify somehow waiting all those years to reveal the truth, when it really doesn't matter anymore. Briony knew she did wrong when you see her looking out the window as they took him away. To show them happy, 50 years later was it? On a beach? How romantic...and fake...something you conjure up in your mind to help you sleep at night. She basically killed both of those 2 characters within 4 years...nice. A jealous, nosy busy- body preteen whose actions killed 2 people and ruined more lives (the mothers/parents, brother, etc.), and is now confessing in her book as some sort of atonement, when she really is dying of cancer and needs to feel like it matters...well at this point it doesn't. The 'scene' she caught in the woods was consensual, but her cousin couldn't outright admit to having premarital rough sex, could she..so she also went along with the charade to look like a victim. But if Briony didn't accuse someone, no one would have gotten hurt, there just would have been a lot of hard questions as to what was happening out there when she should have been looking for her brothers instead of having fun with some guy she was attracted to. Good movie, hated how it ended,but I suppose it was appropriate. The only part of the ending that makes up for it is that I think Briony ended up alone all her life..