Review of Atonement (2007) by Brad S — 17 Mar 2012

Watching "Atonement" is like getting on a thrilling ride that ends too soon, that's what I tought when I first saw it 2 years ago. Director Joe Wright did the most amazing job with this movie; locations, clothes, everything was perfect. I love how he plays with light and sounds, that's something you don't happen to see often at the movie theatre these days... Wright is special from this point of view.

THAT long shot on the beach is the best I've ever seen... everytime I watch it I wonder how did he and the actors managed to shoot a 6 minutes long scene; and that's far from being an easy scene... it tells so much about sofference, war, nature, feelings... I love that, it's just perfect. All the carachters are able to reach the audience, at the end of the movie you can tell a lot that is not said about them.

Actors Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan did a great job. They did all manage to take and act in difficult roles...

I cannot avoid mentioning the beautiful, peculiar, deeply inspired soundtrack composed by Dario Marianelli. He really deserved the Oscar he won for this masterpiece, a mix of classical music and something new, that fits so well in this awesome movie... his soundtrack somehow gives rhytm to "Atonement", which runs around a typing machine. After all it all started because of a "wrong" message wrote with a typewriter.

The biggest peculiarity in this movie is that conversations aren't the most important part in here; if you watch "Atonement" again, or more closely, you'll notice that the main scenes are all non-spoken scenes (or with jsut few dialogues). We understand the main plot from some wanted silence -- beautiful over any words. Recommended.