Love, Lies, and Betrayal/Loss and Revenge
Atonement was beautifully dark, heartbreaking, and intriguing. It was filmed and played out intelligently and creative. This was a story about jealousy, lies, and love. When a young master story teller witnesses another young girl being "raped", she is blinded by her jealousy for her older sister, and completely misconstrues the situation.
The story is about a prominent, wealthy family who have a housekeeper who lives with her son on a separate house on the property of the mansion. The older sister and the housekeeper's son fall in love, but at the same time the woman's little sister is pining for the same man. One night while having a party at the mansion, everyone goes out onto the property to search for two little boys who had disappeared from the house. In the midst of this, the young girl walks upon her teenage female cousin being "raped" in a field.
Her feelings of disappointment, betrayal, anger, and jealousy lead her to assume that the young man raping her cousin is in fact the housekeeper's son. Being poor, and this movie being set in the late 1930's, the authorities take the little girls word for it, and take the man to jail. He spends a few years in jail, then is offered the chance to serve in the military(it being the beginning of world war two) instead of jail time, which he accepts.
You find out later that what the young girl saw in the field that day was concentual. The man was a friend of the older brother, and he and the cousin end up getting married. Even after the younger sister finds this out, she doesn't tell anyone until she is an old woman. The older sister resents and blames her sister forever, the younger sister never forgives herself, and the man spends the rest of his days serving in the military.
In the end, the woman dies in a tunnel when a bomb goes off and every drowns in this tunnel, the man dies from an infected wound in the military, his last thoughts of the woman he loved and never got to be with, and the young sister becomes an author. Her final novel is the story of what happened to her sister and her man. This story was so impactful and heartbreaking to me. You didn't realize that the two never got to be together to the very end. It goes to show how damaging a little story telling can be.
The Brave one was a powerful, moving story about one woman's revenge. A happily in love, engaged to be wed couple are walking their dog through a park one day when a group of drunk hoodlums steals their dog and beats them repeatedly, killing the woman's fiance. She is unsatisfied with the authorities response, and decides to take matters into her own hands.
She illegally purchases a gun, and proceeds to exact her revenge on the dregs of society plaguing New York. These are the people who rob, rape, and kill. Meanwhile, there is a dedicated cop on the case of the unsolved vigilante killings, who eventually figures out it's the woman. It ends with her killing the men who killed who killed her fiance, and the cop letting her get away with it. I guess because he thought those people deserved it.
I'm sure there are people who have lost loved ones similar ways, and can relate to wanting some kind of justice. Not to say that I agreed with what she did, but you could really feel her anger and pain in this movie. You had no remorse for the people she killed.
The story is about a prominent, wealthy family who have a housekeeper who lives with her son on a separate house on the property of the mansion. The older sister and the housekeeper's son fall in love, but at the same time the woman's little sister is pining for the same man. One night while having a party at the mansion, everyone goes out onto the property to search for two little boys who had disappeared from the house. In the midst of this, the young girl walks upon her teenage female cousin being "raped" in a field.
Her feelings of disappointment, betrayal, anger, and jealousy lead her to assume that the young man raping her cousin is in fact the housekeeper's son. Being poor, and this movie being set in the late 1930's, the authorities take the little girls word for it, and take the man to jail. He spends a few years in jail, then is offered the chance to serve in the military(it being the beginning of world war two) instead of jail time, which he accepts.
You find out later that what the young girl saw in the field that day was concentual. The man was a friend of the older brother, and he and the cousin end up getting married. Even after the younger sister finds this out, she doesn't tell anyone until she is an old woman. The older sister resents and blames her sister forever, the younger sister never forgives herself, and the man spends the rest of his days serving in the military.
In the end, the woman dies in a tunnel when a bomb goes off and every drowns in this tunnel, the man dies from an infected wound in the military, his last thoughts of the woman he loved and never got to be with, and the young sister becomes an author. Her final novel is the story of what happened to her sister and her man. This story was so impactful and heartbreaking to me. You didn't realize that the two never got to be together to the very end. It goes to show how damaging a little story telling can be.
The Brave one was a powerful, moving story about one woman's revenge. A happily in love, engaged to be wed couple are walking their dog through a park one day when a group of drunk hoodlums steals their dog and beats them repeatedly, killing the woman's fiance. She is unsatisfied with the authorities response, and decides to take matters into her own hands.
She illegally purchases a gun, and proceeds to exact her revenge on the dregs of society plaguing New York. These are the people who rob, rape, and kill. Meanwhile, there is a dedicated cop on the case of the unsolved vigilante killings, who eventually figures out it's the woman. It ends with her killing the men who killed who killed her fiance, and the cop letting her get away with it. I guess because he thought those people deserved it.
I'm sure there are people who have lost loved ones similar ways, and can relate to wanting some kind of justice. Not to say that I agreed with what she did, but you could really feel her anger and pain in this movie. You had no remorse for the people she killed.
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