The compelling, wisdom packed film Atonement, directed by Joe Wright. Inspired from the novel by Ian McEwan illustrates the ideas of class, money, repression, and creativity. Due to these issues some of the characters’ lives change for the worse. These characters were stuck trying to fix what went wrong in their lives, they were stuck to atone for the mistakes they had made. Briony, who is the youngest daughter of an aristocrat family, makes a false accusation that she witnessed Robbie raping a girl. It so happens that Robbie, the middle class man she accused, is the person who her older sister Cecilia is in love with. This provides insight on how people are quick to jump to accusations and point fingers, regardless if they are definite that
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Considering that Briony, who is a young naïve rich girl, was extremely confident in the accusation she made because of all the power she knew she had over someone like Robbie who was in a lower class than her. Incidents like these make the film compelling and insightful about what it means to be alive during the 1930’s. Overall, I was able to gain a good depiction about the people who lived in Britain in the 1930’s after WW1 as well as the history of that era.
To be wealthy meant that you had power and social classes played an important role in this society because it dictated whom people were allowed to associate themselves with. Repressed sexuality was also something that the characters in Atonement dealt with. Due to the differences of the social classes people were repressed from showing their true feelings; it wasn’t moral for an aristocrat to be in love with someone from the middle class. This was a problem because this caused the separation between the social classes and gave the aristocrats more leverage to get away with things they did wrong. Creativity was an important skill to have in the 1930’s because for some it was a form of escape. For Briony, her creativity was her escape from her own feelings. She felt as though she …show more content…
Typically a film would end with only one and that’ll be a happy ending. Yet, unlike most films we were provided with the best of both words. The argument for Joe Wright to provide us with two different endings is within the title of the movie itself. Atonement: The reparation of a wrongdoing, a catholic consequence, sin. The fact that there was a happy ending allowed the audience to be left with a satisfaction that Robbie and Cecilia lived happily ever after with one another after the war. This is the ending that everyone is fond of and is more worldly known. This ending is the one that most of the audience yearned for; therefore Wright provided them with it. Although, by providing a happy ending it administers a sense of false hope. Fro example, in Briony’s last novel it ends with the story that Cecelia and Robbie end up together. They live in a small house and are head over heels for one another and regardless of what happened to them in their past, they couldn’t be anymore happier, at last finally at peace. This happy ending is a representation for those who have committed sins to atone for because they can only hope for a better outcome of their wrongdoings. On the other hand, by presenting an ending that most people are not accustomed to supplies the audience with the truth. It allows everyone to understand that life is not always a fairy
Considering that Briony, who is a young naïve rich girl, was extremely confident in the accusation she made because of all the power she knew she had over someone like Robbie who was in a lower class than her. Incidents like these make the film compelling and insightful about what it means to be alive during the 1930’s. Overall, I was able to gain a good depiction about the people who lived in Britain in the 1930’s after WW1 as well as the history of that era.
To be wealthy meant that you had power and social classes played an important role in this society because it dictated whom people were allowed to associate themselves with. Repressed sexuality was also something that the characters in Atonement dealt with. Due to the differences of the social classes people were repressed from showing their true feelings; it wasn’t moral for an aristocrat to be in love with someone from the middle class. This was a problem because this caused the separation between the social classes and gave the aristocrats more leverage to get away with things they did wrong. Creativity was an important skill to have in the 1930’s because for some it was a form of escape. For Briony, her creativity was her escape from her own feelings. She felt as though she …show more content…
Typically a film would end with only one and that’ll be a happy ending. Yet, unlike most films we were provided with the best of both words. The argument for Joe Wright to provide us with two different endings is within the title of the movie itself. Atonement: The reparation of a wrongdoing, a catholic consequence, sin. The fact that there was a happy ending allowed the audience to be left with a satisfaction that Robbie and Cecilia lived happily ever after with one another after the war. This is the ending that everyone is fond of and is more worldly known. This ending is the one that most of the audience yearned for; therefore Wright provided them with it. Although, by providing a happy ending it administers a sense of false hope. Fro example, in Briony’s last novel it ends with the story that Cecelia and Robbie end up together. They live in a small house and are head over heels for one another and regardless of what happened to them in their past, they couldn’t be anymore happier, at last finally at peace. This happy ending is a representation for those who have committed sins to atone for because they can only hope for a better outcome of their wrongdoings. On the other hand, by presenting an ending that most people are not accustomed to supplies the audience with the truth. It allows everyone to understand that life is not always a fairy