Word: atonementã
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...British soldier fighting in World War II, to Cecilia Tallis, his beloved. He refers to their love story, which both the war and Cecilia’s sister, Briony, interrupt. Director Joe Wright adopts a similar philosophy by choosing Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel “Atonement?? for film adaptation: The story can resume—even if the change in medium makes it lose some of its power. The film stays close to the novel that inspired it, as in Wright’s last film adaptation, Oscar-nominated 2005 movie...
...giggling was the equivalent of a siege on the city of Austen we had built. The problem wasn’t with the movie, but with the gap between the movie and our beloved book. Luckily, Ian MacEwan is not Jane Austen, and the adaptation of “Atonement?? seems destined for a better end. The younger, more capricious Cecilia Tallis is a much better match for Knightley than the wry Elizabeth Bennet. The World War II backdrop and brief scenes of passion, as well as the quality of MacEwan’s prose, all lend themselves...
Horovitz plans to screen “Atonement?? at Harvard and at the synagogue where it was filmed, as well as submitting it to film festivals. He says that he hopes to continue studying film and working on new projects...
...some jewels that most English concentrators have never heard of. Among the best are Henry Green's “Loving” and Muriel Spark's “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” Unfortunately, Wood spends almost a month on “Atonement?? by Ian McEwan, which is taught in at least three English department courses. But for your two short papers—a grand total of about eight double-spaced pages—you could easily write on something else...
...lyrical chronicle of the ways in which “guilt [refines] the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime,” “Atonement?? is a breathtaking and heartbreaking exploration of the nature and bounds of humanity...