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->''"How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong?"''
-->-- '''Robbie'''
->''"How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong?"''
-->-- '''Robbie'''
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* PlayingGertrude: Romola Garai is three years older than Keira Knightley, who plays her older sister. It's especially notable in the one scene they share together, because Cecilia doesn't seem to have aged at all. Although this actually makes a weird kind of sense: [[spoiler: since Briony imagined the entire scene for her book. She thought of herself as much older and more mature after her time as a nurse, but she was still thinking of the Cecelia from her childhood, since in real life they didn't reconcile. But this was mostly just a lucky fluke of having one actress play Cecelia while three played Briony.]]
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The supporting cast includes Creator/BrendaBlethyn as Robbie's mother, Creator/JunoTemple as the Tallises' cousin Lola, and Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as Paul Marshall.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She doesn't explicitly state this, but obviously Briony has thought this as early as the beginning of the war, which is why she forgoes Cambridge to become an Army nurse, and why she gives Robbie and Cecilia a happy ending in her book in the first place.
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* ActorAllusion:
** Young Briony is played by Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. Romola Garai who plays the adult Briony played a FakeIrish in ''Film/RoryOSheaWasHere''. And she was also involved in a spot of unrequited love involving... drumroll please... Creator/JamesMcAvoy. In both films she also plays a girl who spontaneously enters a caregiving job - she also dresses up as a nurse for Halloween in ''Film/RoryOSheaWasHere''.
** An odd one. Keira Knightley previously [[spoiler: died in reality but the witness responsible for her death created a happy ending for her]] in ''Film/TheHole''.
** Creator/JamesMcAvoy has been in [[Series/BandOfBrothers World War II before]]...
** Robbie's mother is a ShipperOnDeck for him and Cecilia. Brenda Blethyn had played Keira Knightley's mother in ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'', also directed by Joe Wright.
** Young Briony is played by Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. Romola Garai who plays the adult Briony played a FakeIrish in ''Film/RoryOSheaWasHere''. And she was also involved in a spot of unrequited love involving... drumroll please... Creator/JamesMcAvoy. In both films she also plays a girl who spontaneously enters a caregiving job - she also dresses up as a nurse for Halloween in ''Film/RoryOSheaWasHere''.
** An odd one. Keira Knightley previously [[spoiler: died in reality but the witness responsible for her death created a happy ending for her]] in ''Film/TheHole''.
** Creator/JamesMcAvoy has been in [[Series/BandOfBrothers World War II before]]...
** Robbie's mother is a ShipperOnDeck for him and Cecilia. Brenda Blethyn had played Keira Knightley's mother in ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'', also directed by Joe Wright.
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* PlayingGertrude: Romola Garai is three years older than Keira Knightley, who plays her older sister. It's especially notable in the one scene they share together, because Cecilia doesn't seem to have aged at all. Although this actually makes a weird kind of sense: [[spoiler: since Briony imagined the entire scene for her book. She thought of herself as much older and more mature after her time as a nurse, but she was still thinking of the Cecelia from her childhood, since in real life they didn't reconcile. But this was mostly just a lucky fluke of having one actress play Cecelia while three played Briony.]]
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* ActorAllusion:
** Young Briony is played by Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. Romola Garai who plays the adult Briony played a FakeIrish in ''Film/RoryOSheaWasHere''. And she was also involved in a spot of unrequited love involving... drumroll please... Creator/JamesMcAvoy. In both films she also plays a girl who spontaneously enters a caregiving job - she also dresses up as a nurse for Halloween in ''Film/RoryOSheaWasHere''.
** An odd one. Keira Knightley previously [[spoiler: died in reality but the witness responsible for her death created a happy ending for her]] in ''Film/TheHole''.
** Creator/JamesMcAvoy has been in [[Series/BandOfBrothers World War II before]]...
** Robbie's mother is a ShipperOnDeck for him and Cecilia. Brenda Blethyn had played Keira Knightley's mother in ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'', also directed by Joe Wright.
** Young Briony is played by Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. Romola Garai who plays the adult Briony played a FakeIrish in ''Film/RoryOSheaWasHere''. And she was also involved in a spot of unrequited love involving... drumroll please... Creator/JamesMcAvoy. In both films she also plays a girl who spontaneously enters a caregiving job - she also dresses up as a nurse for Halloween in ''Film/RoryOSheaWasHere''.
** An odd one. Keira Knightley previously [[spoiler: died in reality but the witness responsible for her death created a happy ending for her]] in ''Film/TheHole''.
** Creator/JamesMcAvoy has been in [[Series/BandOfBrothers World War II before]]...
** Robbie's mother is a ShipperOnDeck for him and Cecilia. Brenda Blethyn had played Keira Knightley's mother in ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'', also directed by Joe Wright.
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* GutPunch: [[spoiler:Though the tone was bleak as it was, there was the faint HopeSpot that Robbie and Cecilia managed to survive and live happily together, but TheReveal shows that both lovers, the most sympathetic characters, lovers died without seeing each other after the meeting in the cafe.]]
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The novel Atonement was adapted into a 2007 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film]] of the same name, directed by Creator/JoeWright and based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, starring Creator/JamesMcAvoy and Creator/KeiraKnightley. Distributed worldwide by Universal Studios, with minor releases through other divisions, it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on September 7, 2007, and in North America on December 7, 2007. The film opened the 64th Venice International Film Festival, making Wright, at the age of thirty-five, the youngest director ever to open the event. The film also opened the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival. It went on to win an Oscar for the Best Original Score at the 80th Academy Awards, and was nominated for six others. At the 61st British Academy Film Awards, it won the Best Film of the Year and the Production Design award.
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The novel Atonement ''Literature/{{Atonement}}'' was adapted into a 2007 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film]] of the same name, directed by Creator/JoeWright and based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, starring Creator/JamesMcAvoy and Creator/KeiraKnightley. Creator/KeiraKnightley.
Like the novel, the film follows a pair of StarCrossedLovers: the wealthy young lady Cecilia (Knightley) and the family's housekeeper's son Robbie ([=McAvoy=]) in antebellum England, who are torn apart when Robbie is arrested following a misunderstanding by Cecilia's jealous younger sister Briony (Creator/SaoirseRonan as a child, Creator/RomolaGarai as a young adult, and Creator/VanessaRedgrave as an old woman). As the country becomes more and more strained by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Briony tries to make amends.
Distributed worldwide by Universal Studios, with minor releases through other divisions, it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on September 7, 2007, and in North America on December 7, 2007. The film opened the 64th Venice International Film Festival, making Wright, at the age of thirty-five, the youngest director ever to open the event. The film also opened the 2007 Vancouver International FilmFestival. It went on to win an Oscar for the Best Original Score at the 80th Academy Awards, and was nominated for six others. At the 61st British Academy Film Awards, it won the Best Film of the Year and the Production Design award.
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Like the novel, the film follows a pair of StarCrossedLovers: the wealthy young lady Cecilia (Knightley) and the family's housekeeper's son Robbie ([=McAvoy=]) in antebellum England, who are torn apart when Robbie is arrested following a misunderstanding by Cecilia's jealous younger sister Briony (Creator/SaoirseRonan as a child, Creator/RomolaGarai as a young adult, and Creator/VanessaRedgrave as an old woman). As the country becomes more and more strained by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Briony tries to make amends.
Distributed worldwide by Universal Studios, with minor releases through other divisions, it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on September 7, 2007, and in North America on December 7, 2007. The film opened the 64th Venice International Film Festival, making Wright, at the age of thirty-five, the youngest director ever to open the event. The film also opened the 2007 Vancouver International Film
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Briony makes it clear that the final meeting between her, Cecilia, and Robbie never actually happened. Both died in 1940, having met only once for a short time since Robbie being put in jail. Paul Marshall gets away with his rape of Lola. Briony herself will die childless while literally losing her mind (though this may be seen as a comeuppance) and doesn't even write her book revealing the truth until decades after it happens and after many of whom were involved in the incident are dead.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Briony makes it clear that the final meeting between her, Cecilia, and Robbie never actually happened. Both died in 1940, having met only once for a short time since Robbie being put in jail. Paul Marshall gets away with his rape of Lola. Briony herself will die childless while literally losing her mind (though this may be seen as a comeuppance) and doesn't even write her book revealing the truth until decades after it happens and after many of whom the people who were involved in the incident are dead.]]
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Unlike Briony and Lola, when Cecilia reads the rude letter she guesses it was probably a joke and asks Robbie about it. While he's clearly mortified, Cecilia appears to have found it funny.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Briony (played by the blonde Saoirse Ronan) is described as having dark hair in the book. Given that brunette Keira Knightley was the first choice (for the adult version anyway) but chose to play Cecilia, this is presumably to distinguish the sisters.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Briony is slashing nettles, she attributes to Lola the sins of {{Pride}}, [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony]], [[{{Greed}} Avarice]] and unco-operativeness.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The film mentions the Balham station disaster (a German bomb was dropped on the road above the station - the tube platforms of which were being used as air-raid shelters - causing the northbound tunnel to partially collapse, flooding both platforms with water and earth from the ruptured water mains and sewers above), but gets the date of the event wrong as the film says it happened on 15 October 1940, a day after it happened.
* TheAtoner: Briony. [[spoiler: But only in her book does she make explicit atonement. It's left more ambiguous in real life, where such clean, neat endings are not always found.]]
* BitchAlert: Briony from the scene where she tries to get her cousins to rehearse her play.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Only at the start. Briony is the blonde and her sister Cecilia is the brunette. When cousin Lola arrives, that gives them a redhead too.
* BreakTheHaughty: A rare self-inflicted example. After Briony realises what she's done, she turns down an offer to go to Cambridge and becomes a nurse during the War.
* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:Robbie joins the army rather than stay in prison.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: The actor playing Leon, Cecilia and Briony's brother, believed that Leon and Cecilia's relationship had elements of this; director Wright commented that he wasn't sure he agreed with him on that, and speculated it may have been because so many of Ian [=McEwan=]'s other novels have incest in them. Nonetheless there are a few moments in the film (and another in a deleted scene) that hint at this idea.
* ChekhovsGun: Robbie seen looking at a wound on his chest as he and his two men begin their march. [[spoiler: Foreshadowing the septicaemia that later kills him]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: PlayedForDrama. Briony and Lola, being young and naïve, assume Robbie must be a sex maniac. They don't understand adult relationships at all.
* CountryMatters: The word is actually a ''plot point'' in both the book and the film.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler:Cecilia's body floating in the flooded underground.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: One would be forgiven to think that Cecelia and Robbie are the main characters of the film (especially from the promotional materials), but really it's Briony.
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Cecilia and Robbie: it's hinted at in the end of the movie, but never stated in the novel]]
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Nettle doesn't close Robbie's empty eyes.]]
* DistantFinale: A depressing one indeed, more explicit in the film, which features Briony being interviewed on TV. [[spoiler: Briony reveals that the whole second half of the story is a lie and that Robbie and Cecilia never got reunited. She's publishing her book on the events, rewriting history to give them a happy ending - before she succumbs to dementia.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Briony makes it clear that the final meeting between her, Cecilia, and Robbie never actually happened. Both died in 1940, having met only once for a short time since Robbie being put in jail. Paul Marshall gets away with his rape of Lola. Briony herself will die childless while literally losing her mind (though this may be seen as a comeuppance) and doesn't even write her book revealing the truth until decades after it happens and after many of whom were involved in the incident are dead.]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: In the book, Briony openly states that [[spoiler:there was no way she could end the story with the lovers dead, so she put in a happy ending]]. She furthermore tells the reader not to wonder what really happened. The movie makes it clear that [[spoiler:Robbie dies of septicemia and Cecilia is killed in a bombing.]])
* EurekaMoment: Years later when Briony realises [[spoiler: it was Paul Marshall she caught with Lola and not Robbie]].
* FalseRapeAccusation: What drives the plot.
* FixFic: [[spoiler:In a way, the whole book is Briony doing this in-universe.]]
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: While working as a nurse during the war, Briony tends to a French soldier wounded in the head. He mistakes her for an English girl he met in his childhood, but [[LetThemDieHappy Briony plays along because she knows he's suffering]]. When he asks if she loves him, Briony says that she does (both the book and the movie makes it clear that Briony truly did, even if it was just for a few seconds). The soldier dies a minute later.
* GentlemenRankers: Robbie's upbringing qualifies him for an officer rank, but he is forced to be a private because of his criminal record.
* TheGhost: The Old Man (the Tallis patriarch) is frequently alluded to, but never seen.
* GutPunch: [[spoiler:Though the tone was bleak as it was, there was the faint HopeSpot that Robbie and Cecilia managed to survive and live happily together, but TheReveal shows that both lovers, the most sympathetic characters, died without seeing each other after the meeting in the cafe.]]
* HairContrastDuo: Immature bratty Briony is blonde, contrasted with mature, open-minded Cecilia who is brunette.
* HairstyleInertia: Briony has the same bobbed hairstyle in childhood and adulthood.
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Both Robbie and Cecilia themselves at the end.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Briony's 'discovery' that Robbie was innocent.]]
* HopeSpot: For the audience. [[spoiler: Robbie living in London with Cecilia makes the audience believe that he made it, that he got evacuated, Briony atones herself and everything goes back to somekind of normality. Only in [[TheEndingChangesEverything the end]] we find out that all of this just happened in Briony's fantasy and both lovers died in 1940.]]
* IrrevocableMessage: The obscene letter Robbie accidentally sends to Cecilia.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: The book is narrated by Briony, who considers telling the story to be her [[TitleDrop "atonement."]]
* [[ItsNotPornItsArt It's Not Porn It's Art]]: The rather lengthy [[WallBangHer sex scene]] in the book. Regarding the movie, Joe Wright states the love scene was inspired by a painting.
* JailBaitWait: Another interpretation of [[spoiler: the rape of Lola is that she and Marshall were having an affair and he married her as soon as she came of age]].
* KarmaHoudini:
** Paul Marshall who is guilty for [[spoiler: raping Lola and allowing Robbie to take the blame for it. Briony doesn't realise his guilt until years later when it's too late to do anything about it]].
** [[spoiler:It's implied in both the book and the movie that Lola knew exactly who was raping her, and saw Briony's FalseRapeAccusation as a way out of an encounter that she may or may not have consented to. Judging by Lola's reaction to Briony at her wedding, she seemed to know that she (Briony) knew the truth, which means that she was perfectly willing to let an innocent Robbie go to prison for Paul's crimes. In that case she gets absolutely zero comeuppance for this, instead living the rest of her days as a rich woman and is healthy and hale the last time book!Briony sees her.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Briony thinks she's WiseBeyondHerYears but she's still very naïve and ignorant of a lot of other things.
* LastNameBasis: When she's a nurse, Briony is reprimanded for letting patients call her by her first name. The ward sister only addresses her by her last name.
* LetThemDieHappy:
** [[spoiler:Robbie's last action is to light a match and take one last look at the postcard of the cottage by the beach where he and Cecilia were going to spend time.]]
** Briony tends to a dying soldier who thinks she's his fiancee. She plays along.
* LoveLetterLunacy: Robbie is frustrated trying to write a letter to Cecilia, and writes a vulgar, sexually charged one to work out this frustration. Afterwards, he writes a perfectly lovely one and gives it to his love's young sister to deliver. Guess what? He hands out the wrong one.
* MamaBear: Robbie's mother assaults the police car after her son is taken away. It doesn't amount to anything but points for effort.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Robbie who gets sent to prison and later the army for a crime he didn't commit. The rude letter he wrote Cecilia and Briony's testimony just implicates him even further, as does the fact that he's the gardener's son - and all other suspects are upper class.
* MonochromeCasting: Mace is one of the only nonwhite characters in both the movie.
* MotorMouth: Thomas Nettle, who rambles on while Robbie and Mace are walking to Dunkirk.
* NiceGuy: Nettle clearly likes and respects Robbie [[spoiler:and makes him as comfortable as possible when it becomes clear that Robbie won't make the night. He even takes his letters from Cecilia to return them when he makes it back.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** Briony spies Cecilia stripping off for Robbie and, combined with the rude letter she accidentally saw, concludes he must be a sex maniac. Cecilia was merely stripping off to get something out of the fountain and the letter was a joke.
** And when she walks in on the two of them having sex, she assumes Robbie must be ''attacking'' Cecilia.
* OhCrap: In the movie when Robbie hands the letter to Briony and she's had enough time to walk away, he realises he gave her the rude one by accident and shouts out "Briony!" - but to no avail.
* IAmVeryBritish: As most of the characters are upper class, the actors all posh up their voices considerably. Robbie sports this voice too despite being lower class - as he's brought up around the family.
* TheOner: The continuous shot on the Dunkirk beaches in the movie. It took three tries, and the cameraman fainted afterward. At one point you can see an actor trip and recover.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: When Briony visits Robbie in the London flat, he threatens to throw her down the stairs; quite different from the calm and soft-spoken Robbie we're used to. Especially compared to his TranquilFury when Briony faked drowning. [[spoiler: This is a clue that the scene is entirely made up by Briony]].
* ThePenance: A non-physical example. Once Briony matures and realises the extent of what she's done, she refuses a position at Cambridge and volunteers as a nurse.
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath: see DiedHappilyEverAfter]]
* PerspectiveFlip: Happens a couple of times, with Briony's and Cecilia's viewpoints being shown out of chronological order before intersecting.
* PoorCommunicationKills: A lot of the drama would probably have been sorted out if Robbie and Cecilia ''just told Briony they were in love''. Though they themselves didn't realize it until that same night, and Briony was still jealous of Robbie's feelings for Cecilia, the least they could have done is said something quickly after their encounter in the library instead of just awkwardly leaving.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:The assault on Lola.]]
* {{Retirony}}: A variation. [[spoiler:A wounded Robbie has just a day to wait until he's evacuated, at which point he can meet Cecilia. Is it any wonder if he makes it or not?]]
* RewatchBonus: Robbie's reaction to being told that the wounded will be left behind at Dunkirk. [[spoiler: He's not only badly wounded but dying at that point.]] Also a bizarre scene where Briony looks out a window at an old woman pushing an empty baby carriage. [[spoiler: The narrator is an old childless woman.]]
* SceneryPorn: It's a Joe Wright film; what do you expect? Even the shot of the somber Dunkirk feels more like SceneryGorn than true disarray.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: The emerald green dress Cecilia wears in the library scene.
* SexySoakedShirt: What kicks off the couple's infatuation. Cecilia dives for a vase into a fountain in her clothes.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Robbie and Cecilia [[spoiler:both die in the war, before either getting to be together or Briony attempting to make amends]]. Marshall and Lola [[spoiler:get away with their crimes]], and Briony eventually [[spoiler:gets dementia]].
-->'''Briony:''' "How could that constitute an ending? What sense or hope or satisfaction could a reader draw from such an account? Who would want to believe that they never met again, never fulfilled their love? Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism? I couldn’t do it to them."
* StarCrossedLovers: Not initially. Although Cecilia is higher class than Robbie, he's a friend of the family and it's implied they probably wouldn't have objected to them getting together. [[spoiler: But then Robbie is falsely convicted as a rapist and both of them later die in the war. Cecilia even states that her family stopped her from visiting Robbie in prison]].
* TimeShiftedActor: Briony ages from Creator/SaoirseRonan as a child to Creator/RomolaGarai as a teen to Creator/VanessaRedgrave as an old woman.
* TradingBarsForStripes: Robbie is forced to join the army to avoid a prison sentence.
* {{Tsundere}}: Cecilia is Type A for Robbie who is actually Type B for her. Ironically, his rude letter helps them confirm their feelings for one another.
* UnreliableNarrator: Briony. [[spoiler: She is telling the story as a novelist several decades in the future, and (in the film) explains that a divergence from reality began at the Dunkirk evacuation. The revelation that Briony is the one telling the story calls the accuracy of other parts to question as well; her descriptions about the thoughts and feelings of other people (mainly Cecilia and Robbie) must be based on conjecture. The harsh, almost spiteful portrayal of young Briony can also be read as part of older Briony's regret and self-loathing.]]
* UptownGirl: Robbie and Cecilia's relationship at the start.
* WallBangHer: Cecilia and Robbie in the library.
* WarIsHell: Present but it isn't the bulk of the story. [[spoiler: It is however the reason the lovers never get to be together]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: WordOfGod has it that Briony creates such a mess because she's so goodly and so certain of herself. Probably also qualifies as LawfulStupid.
%%* SnicketWarningLabel: The interview at the end. The story before that was sad enough, but after the interview it's tragic.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Creator/JamesMcAvoy got the part as Robbie Turner because the character is described as having eyes of optimism, and so does James, according to its director.
-->'''Creator/JoeWright''': He has his eye on a very bright horizon.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not said what becomes of Briony's family after the war. Cecilia breaks off contact with them as soon as she comes of age. Likewise, we never hear of Robbie's mother after her son was convicted.
* WolverinePublicity: For the official [[http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~nishiken/images/img318.jpg Japanese poster]] and the [[http://images2.static-bluray.com/movies/dvdcovers/96487_front.jpg Canadian DVD artwork,]] Creator/KeiraKnightley is much more noticeable than her male co-star, even though Creator/JamesMcAvoy has the most screen time.
* {{Yandere}}: Briony for Robbie, at least her younger self. Jumping into a river to see if he would rescue her is one of the smaller things she did.
