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From an online reviewer:

ATONEMENT comes closer than any other film to explain a portrait of an artist. Or, in other words, what it is really like to be in the mind of a writer. Throughout ATONEMENT Briony exemplifies the role of a writer: she enjoys feeling like God (or believing that she is better than other people) and being in control of her characters--both in her fictional and "real" world. For example, she believes she is better than other people by talking down to them (her cousin, Lola, and the twins), not respecting other people's privacy (she reads Robbie's letter to Cecilia), and lying about something that has grave consequences for other people (Robbie, Cecilia and herself). She enjoys being in control by tricking Robbie into saving her when she really wasn't drowning, and preventing Robbie and Cecilia being together since she can't have Robbie for herself. She even changes the ending of the Robbie and Cecilia story to suit her needs of a novelist. In some ways, ATONEMENT is very much like a Woody Allen movie--especially THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, and MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY. There's a scene in ATONEMENT where Robbie is in an abandoned movie theater in Dunkirk. By having him stand in front of a movie screen, it is suggested that art imitates life and life imitates art and who can tell the difference between the two. This scene is very similar to a scene in MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY, which makes sense because Briony has difficulty separating her fictional world from her "real" world. She seems to think she can control the lives of the people around her as she does with the characters in her stories. I realize that the marketing department is trying to present ATONEMENT as a love story between Robbie and Cecilia. But I actually think the main character is Briony--both in the movie and book. ATONEMENT is one of the best movie adaptations--much better than THE ENGLISH PATIENT. It is also one of the best movies of the year. Of the five films nominated for Best Picture, the Academy Award should have gone to ATONEMENT. Highly recommended.