I was expecting it to suck a lot. I mean; so much because it stars Keira Knightley. Atonement started off looking like one of those boring British- Colonial films with boring ‘lah- dee - dah’ ladies, and gentlemen with such great mustaches they would score so many women. It’s orientation was way too happy, and I was pretty much bracing myself to endure a painful chick-flick. Then a super marvelous thing happened, and a funky time switch replayed a series of events that had already occurred on screen but from a different perspective. It plays with two different stories on a parallel time line, comparing and contrasting the morals shared between an age gap. Interpretation (or rather misinterpretation) of various scenarios act as a key device to construct a cleverly interwoven plot. Every plot hole my mind began to pick at was cleverly patched through some intricate weaving of events which still kept some sense of believability.
