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Atonement
Older Briony Tallis: I had for a very long time decided to tell the absolute truth...no rhymes, no embellishments. I got first had accounts of all the events I didn't personally witness, the conditions in prison, the evacuation to Dunkirk. Everything. But the effect of dishonesty was rather pitiless you see. I couldn't any longer imagine what purpose would be served by it. Reporter: By what? sorry, so by honisty? Older Briony Tallis: By honesty...or reality. Because in fact I was to 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 invented, imagined. And, in fact, could never have happened... .because Robbie Turner died of septicaemia at Bray Dunes on the first of June 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 above Balham tube station. So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for... and deserved. 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.
Robbie and Cecilia
Joined By Love. Separeted By Fear. Redeemed By Hope.
dollywolly added this comment 2009-06-07 20:38:14-05:00
I love this movie! awesome glog!!
dollywolly added this comment 2009-06-07 20:38:14-05:00
I love this movie! awesome glog!!