Atonement (Widescreen Edition) From:Keira Knightley , James Mcavoy , Saoirse Ronan , Brenda Blethyn , Harriet Walter , Universal , Universal Studios ,
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025193328526
Format: AC-3
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: Universal Studios
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 30 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-03-18
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Product Description:
From the award-winning director of Pride and Prejudice comes a stunning, critically acclaimed epic story of love. When a young girl catches her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will irrevocably change the course of all their lives forever. Academy Award® nominee Keira Knightley and James McAvoy lead an all-star cast in the film critics are hailing "the year's best picture" (Thelma Adams, US Weekly).
Customer Reviews:
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Very Poor Storytelling, 2009-01-02
In full disclosure mode... I am one of four of us that saw this movie that did not like it. I won't rehash the storyline. There are many, many reviews that do that. I will simply point out the big problem areas for me:....
Period pieces are tough. They run the risk of dragging a storyline down. Forty-two minutes into the movie I was about to lose my mind from sheer boredom. The pace of the movie was logged down by an inept unfolding of a period piece.
Flashback sequences are tricky. Do it wrong and you confuse your audience. This was horrifying. There was a lack of consistency in order and I began wondering "Three weeks earlier?" Is that three weeks earlier than the six months earlier we are moving away from or is it three weeks earlier from the completion of the six months span of time?
Theatrical screen shots rapidly become parody if they do not support the storyline. I actually laughed out loud at many of the theatrical shots. A soldier standing in front of a black and white movie screen.... the closeup of a broken vase. It did not support the story, these moments that are liberally sprinkled through this movie felt like the overfawning inner artiste' of bad direction. It truly took time out of the movie and did not pull the story forward.
And... NEVER offer up a story about a storyteller if you cannot actually tell a story. Some movies are not storytelling greatness. The main character is a writer. A Storyteller. And this movie is her "story" of what happened.
And lastly - if you are going to name a movie "Atonement"... show atonement. (I will have to say that two of the three people who watched this movie and liked it, agreed with me on this point). If Atonement was the title and the subject, it would have been interesting to actually see that. You get a small admission of wanting atonement, but there is no "aha" moment you see with the main character. And part of the reason for that is there is no focus on her process other than to show her nursing. But Atonement is a deep process and this was a shallow reference.
I would feel very put upon if I should ever be forced to watch this movie again. And although it appears that I stand alone... I cannot recommend this movie.
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