The end of the movie, from where the husband first meets Nora’s childhood friend in their apartment hallway, to comforting her after he leaves on their porch steps: gold.
Just want to know why it took so long to get there, I have never been so bored in all my life
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Objectively this is a good film… plot wise, characters, the twist at the end.
But I will fucking never forgive whoever’s idea it was to turn Ian McEwan’s amazing book into a film. Atonement’s book form is so more complex—its exploration into pluralism and class divide, for example, at a time when landowning aristocracy was dying out is barely brushed on in the movie, when in the book it is so central to the development and portrayal of the characters, particularly…
