“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”
In the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I’d like to think that this isn’t weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.
But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.
18/50 Stunning Cinematography → Atonement (2007)
I just watched Atonement annnnnd all the touching scenes killed me.
Literally. I was murdered tonight. And I died a long death.
Briony Tallis :Because, in fact, I was too much of a coward to go and see my sister in June, 1940. I never made that journey to Balham. So the scene in which I confess to them is imagined…invented. Any of that could never have happened, because—Robbie Turner died of septicemia at Bray dunes on June 1st 1940, the last day of the evacuation. And I was never able to put things right with my sister, Cecilia, because she was killed on the 15th of October, 1940, by the bomb that destroyed the gas and water mains of Balham tube station. So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for, and deserved. And which ever since, I’ve…ever since I’ve always felt I prevented. But, what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I’d like to think this isn’t weakness or evasion. But a final act of kindness I gave them: their happiness.(Atonement-2007)
“It’s complicated. It’s about a young girl, a young and foolish girl who sees something from her bedroom window which she doesn’t understand, but she thinks she does.”
“The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”
