THE ATONEMENT

MY VIEW: I personally thought the movie was well done. It was a sad movie. Keira Knightley(Cecilia) and James McAvoy(Robbie) were cast perfectly to the characters they played. There was an enduring love between them. He hung onto her love with letters she had sent while he was at war. She, who comes from such wealth ends up in a little flat in England. This has an "R" rating. There were some parts that were a bit gory when they showed wounded men in the hospital that just came from the war. There was language, again from soldiers, and there was a bit of sexual content between these two lead characters. I have to say as much as I read books, I liked the movie alot better than the book.

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony -- who has a crush on Robbie -- is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested -- and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.