Finally I have finished watching this show. And it has become one of my favourite shows of all time! It is hard to describe what genre the show is, because it is about love, lies, deception, war and a sad yet happy ending at the same time. I have not cried while watching a movie for the longest time, but I actually cried while watching this show!
"Atonement" is about how a lie changes the lives of two people who are in love with each other, and put a budding romance to an end. The lie was started by a thirteen year old girl who accused her housekeeper's son of raping her cousin, because she had a crush on him yet he was in love with her elder sister. He was imprisoned for four years then went into the army when World War II broke out.
The war scene is the highlight of the show. It showed the soldiers having a carnival on the beach, and before they went to battle they had to close down the carnival and sing a song of peace. That scene triggered off all kinds of emotions in me and I just sniffled with my tears dropping while watching that scene! It showed the extent of humanity, that even though trained soldiers had to go the battlefront and fight each other, deep down they were still human and kids (since most were in their late teens and early twenties).
The last part was on how the thirteen year old girl became a seventy year old woman, and she was being interviewed for her last novel "Atonement", in which she finally righted the wrong done to her sister and the guy. In the novel, she gave a happy ending, like how the eighteen year old her went to her sister's apartment and apologised for her wrong accusation, how the guy almost wanted to break her neck and how she wrote a letter to her parents to tell the truth.
But during the interview, she said she had always felt guilty about what really happened, because she never did have a chance to meet her sister, and her sister and the guy never did get together because he died in France during the war, whilst her sister followed a few months later during the bombing of the London Tube. Thus, in her novel, she wanted to right the wrong and give them the ending they deserved.
The end of the show showed the sister and the guy running around happily on a beach side cottage, looking so happy. The beach side cottage happened to be the scene on a postcard whom she sent to him during the war, where she said they would be together and retire to the place. So in a way, they did get together, even if not on Earth, but somewhere else. And only in paradise can one be truly happy.
I believe this is not the kind of show for those who prefer slapstick or comedy. This is not a romantic comedy, neither is it a war documentary on its own. Yet for those who can actually appreciate this show, it goes beyond all these genres and have a much deeper theme and meaning all on its own.
The dress which Keira Knightley wore, despite being elegant in appearance, actually holds the whole show together, because green is the colour of peace, and intense green represents peace, deception, passion. Everything from the scenes to the clothes to the settings just fit in so well together! That is why I love it!
"Atonement" is about how a lie changes the lives of two people who are in love with each other, and put a budding romance to an end. The lie was started by a thirteen year old girl who accused her housekeeper's son of raping her cousin, because she had a crush on him yet he was in love with her elder sister. He was imprisoned for four years then went into the army when World War II broke out.
The war scene is the highlight of the show. It showed the soldiers having a carnival on the beach, and before they went to battle they had to close down the carnival and sing a song of peace. That scene triggered off all kinds of emotions in me and I just sniffled with my tears dropping while watching that scene! It showed the extent of humanity, that even though trained soldiers had to go the battlefront and fight each other, deep down they were still human and kids (since most were in their late teens and early twenties).
The last part was on how the thirteen year old girl became a seventy year old woman, and she was being interviewed for her last novel "Atonement", in which she finally righted the wrong done to her sister and the guy. In the novel, she gave a happy ending, like how the eighteen year old her went to her sister's apartment and apologised for her wrong accusation, how the guy almost wanted to break her neck and how she wrote a letter to her parents to tell the truth.
But during the interview, she said she had always felt guilty about what really happened, because she never did have a chance to meet her sister, and her sister and the guy never did get together because he died in France during the war, whilst her sister followed a few months later during the bombing of the London Tube. Thus, in her novel, she wanted to right the wrong and give them the ending they deserved.
The end of the show showed the sister and the guy running around happily on a beach side cottage, looking so happy. The beach side cottage happened to be the scene on a postcard whom she sent to him during the war, where she said they would be together and retire to the place. So in a way, they did get together, even if not on Earth, but somewhere else. And only in paradise can one be truly happy.
I believe this is not the kind of show for those who prefer slapstick or comedy. This is not a romantic comedy, neither is it a war documentary on its own. Yet for those who can actually appreciate this show, it goes beyond all these genres and have a much deeper theme and meaning all on its own.
The dress which Keira Knightley wore, despite being elegant in appearance, actually holds the whole show together, because green is the colour of peace, and intense green represents peace, deception, passion. Everything from the scenes to the clothes to the settings just fit in so well together! That is why I love it!
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