The One and Only weasley74

This film really is one of its kind; bringing you an experience you might just cherish forever. Every inch of this film, every second that passes is pure brilliance. It’s been a really long times since a film has made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up just because of the suspense it creates, this because of the brilliance you know awaits you and that you can’t seem to be eager enough. Because when watching a master-piece, such as this, you can’t seize to be amazed. The storyline itself is of a kind that I have yet to come across something like it – containing everything that you could come to think would together make the ultimate tale. The brilliance do not only, even though you might come to think so, lie in the way the story is told – a mastermind must be the one behind this, if that is McEwan; the author of the novel, Hampton; the one who made that fantastic work of art into an amazing script, or if it is Wright; the splendid director, is not really a question that one should spend countless of sleepless nights worrying about. This, because it’s probably more to it than just that. Atonement contains so much more than anyone would be able to point out. But what catches ones eye is the damage a single misunderstanding can do, and how one has to choose the lesser of two evils. How a few simple words can change everything , as well the realization of how naïve eyes, one pair of eyes, can never be completely trusted on their own, is something that never seize to astound me.

To all of this they did in fact add a whole lot more than just one ounce of first class acting. The way McAvoy portraits the character of Robbie does nothing more than to, during these 117 minutes, capture your heart in whole, and does not, even for a second, let it go. This leaving you, at the end of the film, feeling rather hopeless, but at the same time filled with emotions there are probably no existing words for in the English language. For the short time that the film lasts for you are completely and utterly sure that you would be his forever, if it wasn’t for one teensiest little detail – C, also known as Cecilia or, if you will, Keira Knightley. As always this astonishingly beautiful woman has clearly put her heart and soul into the character, and you do not, even for a slightest fraction of a second, think that anyone could have done it better than she did it. As for the younger of the two Tallis daughters, Saoirse Ronan’s acting take you to a place beyond anything you’ve quite known before and what she does it that she almost has you convinced that adapting The Lovely Bones for the screen may just not be all that bad, in fact it might just have been a good idea.

Three seconds into the film the tension is already building. Robbie and C have this unwritten history, a story that only they know about but that you, for some unknown reason, already have your hands on, and it’s bloody brilliant to say the least. You can almost feel exactly what they are feeling, even though you’ve never quite felt it yourself before. But whether they have a future together or not, that’s what we’re set out to discover – and that journey is something far from what you’d expect. There are so many unexpected twists and turns in this flick that you will be surprised, even when warned. Although there are certain parts in French, that in itself adds a particular feeling to it all, but leave those who haven’t studied this beautiful language confused, there’s really nothing that one can find to complain about.

One can really just summarize this film in a single sentence; it’s pure brilliance, and that’s the absolute truth.