Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the coure of several lives whe...
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the coure of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
When Briony Tallis, 13 year old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misundertandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussion for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plan on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed.adapted from the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1930 for the background , describing the name of Briony woman across time and space to pursue a criminal case involving her boyfriend and his sister . Girls star Saoirse Ronan , girls actor Luoma La Ka Shui ( Romola Garai ) and the senior actress Vanessa Reid Greif (Vanessa Redgrave, ) played three different ages of Briony , " The Last King of Scotland " ( The Last King of Scotland ) actor James McAvoy (James McAvoy ) to play her boyfriend , " Pirates of the Caribbean " ( Keira Knightley , Pirates of the Caribbean ) , the heroine played his sister . "Atonement," the mysterious paradox of the story has been hailed as the Second World War "The Sixth Sense " ( The Sixth Sense) .