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Atonement

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Atonement	label	Atonement
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Atonement	comment	Atonement is a 2001 book written by Ian McEwan about love, war, writing, guilt and, well, atonement.Briony Tallis, a young writer from a well-off family, thinks her older sister Cecilia is being sexually harassed by her childhood friend Robbie Turner, also the son of her family's housekeeper. The two are in fact considering a consensual relationship. But the lie she tells leads to lasting, tragic consequences that threaten the happiness of the couple.The novel was adapted into a 2007 film of the same name, directed by Joe Wright and based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley. Distributed worldwide by Universal Studios, with minor releases through other divisions, it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on September 7, 2007, and in North America on December 7, 2007. The film opened the 64th Venice International Film Festival, making Wright, at the age of thirty-five, the youngest director ever to open the event. The film also opened the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival. It went on to win an Oscar for the Best Original Score at the 80th Academy Awards, and was nominated for six others. At the 61st British Academy Film Awards, it won the Best Film of the Year and the Production Design award.
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Atonement / int_12dd1d4c	type	RapeAsDrama
Atonement / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The assault on Lola.
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Atonement / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Atonement / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: Cecilia's body floating in the flooded underground.
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Atonement / int_1869b4b1	type	UnreliableNarrator
Atonement / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Briony. She is telling the story as a novelist several decades in the future, and (in the film) explains that a divergence from reality began at the Dunkirk evacuation. The revelation that Briony is the one telling the story calls the accuracy of other parts to question as well; her descriptions about the thoughts and feelings of other people (mainly Cecilia and Robbie) must be based on conjecture. The harsh, almost spiteful portrayal of young Briony can also be read as part of older Briony's regret and self-loathing.
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Atonement / int_1902e67d	type	I Am Very British
Atonement / int_1902e67d	comment	I Am Very British: As most of the characters are upper class, the actors all posh up their voices considerably. Robbie sports this voice too despite being lower class - as he's brought up around the family.
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Atonement / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Atonement / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: The Old Man (the Tallis patriarch) is frequently alluded to, but never seen.
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Atonement / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Atonement / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: A lot of the drama would probably have been sorted out if Robbie and Cecilia just told Briony they were in love. Though they themselves didn't realize it until that same night, and Briony was still jealous of Robbie's feelings for Cecilia, the least they could have done is said something quickly after their encounter in the library instead of just awkwardly leaving.
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Atonement / int_200fbcd8	type	Snicket Warning Label
Atonement / int_200fbcd8	comment	Snicket Warning Label: The interview at the end. The story before that was sad enough, but after the interview it's tragic.
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Atonement / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Atonement / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Robbie seen looking at a wound on his chest as he and his two men begin their march. Foreshadowing the septicaemia that later kills him.
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Atonement / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
Atonement / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Briony thinks she's Wise Beyond Her Years but she's still very naïve and ignorant of a lot of other things.
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Atonement / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Atonement / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Robbie and Cecilia both die in the war, before either getting to be together or Briony attempting to make amends. Marshall and Lola get away with their crimes, and Briony eventually gets dementia. Briony says at the end that she changed the details in her book because she didn't want to tell a story like that: "How could that constitute an ending? What sense or hope or satisfaction could a reader draw from such an account? Who would want to believe that they never met again, never fulfilled their love? Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism? I couldn’t do it to them."
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Atonement / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Atonement / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: A rare self-inflicted example. After Briony realises what she's done, she turns down an offer to go to Cambridge and becomes a nurse during the War.
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Atonement / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Atonement / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Nettle doesn't close Robbie's empty eyes.
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Atonement / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Atonement / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: A depressing one indeed, more explicit in the film, which features Briony being interviewed on TV. Briony reveals that the whole second half of the story is a lie and that Robbie and Cecilia never got reunited. She's publishing her book on the events, rewriting history to give them a happy ending - before she succumbs to dementia.
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Atonement / int_34082c59	type	Wolverine Publicity
Atonement / int_34082c59	comment	Wolverine Publicity: For the official Japanese poster◊ and the Canadian DVD artwork,◊ Keira Knightley is much more noticeable than her male co-star, even though James McAvoy has the most screen time.
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Atonement / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
Atonement / int_3763bcf8	comment	It's implied in both the book and the movie that Lola knew exactly who was raping her, and saw Briony's False Rape Accusation as a way out of an encounter that she may or may not have consented to. Judging by Lola's reaction to Briony at her wedding, she seemed to know that she (Briony) knew the truth, which means that she was perfectly willing to let an innocent Robbie go to prison for Paul's crimes. In that case she gets absolutely zero comeuppance for this, instead living the rest of her days as a rich woman and is healthy and hale the last time book!Briony sees her.
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Atonement / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Atonement / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Both Robbie and Cecilia themselves at the end.
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Atonement / int_40b711d5	type	Hair-Contrast Duo
Atonement / int_40b711d5	comment	Hair-Contrast Duo: Immature bratty Briony is blonde, contrasted with mature, open-minded Cecilia who is brunette.
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Atonement / int_47b152f9	type	Sexy Soaked Shirt
Atonement / int_47b152f9	comment	Sexy Soaked Shirt: What kicks off the couple's infatuation. Cecilia dives for a vase into a fountain in her clothes.
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Atonement / int_49d59be9	type	SceneryPorn
Atonement / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: It's a Joe Wright film; what do you expect? Even the shot of the somber Dunkirk feels more like Scenery Gorn than true disarray.
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Atonement / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Atonement / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Briony makes it clear that the final meeting between her, Cecilia, and Robbie never actually happened. Both died in 1940, having met only once for a short time since Robbie being put in jail. Paul Marshall gets away with his rape of Lola. Briony herself will die childless while literally losing her mind (though this may be seen as a comeuppance) and doesn't even write her book revealing the truth until decades after it happens and after many of whom were involved in the incident are dead.
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Atonement / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Atonement / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Briony. But only in her book does she make explicit atonement. It's left more ambiguous in real life, where such clean, neat endings are not always found.
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Atonement / int_5103ab7b	type	Sexy Backless Outfit
Atonement / int_5103ab7b	comment	Sexy Backless Outfit: The emerald green dress Cecilia wears in the library scene.
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Atonement / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Atonement / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Briony spies Cecilia stripping off for Robbie and, combined with the rude letter she accidentally saw, concludes he must be a sex maniac. Cecilia was merely stripping off to get something out of the fountain and the letter was a joke. And when she walks in on the two of them having sex, she assumes Robbie must be attacking Cecilia.
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Atonement / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Atonement / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The performance of The Trials of Arabella.
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Atonement / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Atonement / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: The word is actually a plot point in both the book and the film.
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Atonement / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Atonement / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Both the novel and the film mentions the Balham station disaster (a German bomb was dropped on the road above the station - the tube platforms of which were being used as air-raid shelters - causing the northbound tunnel to partially collapse, flooding both platforms with water and earth from the ruptured water mains and sewers above), but both media get the date of the event wrong: the novel says it happened in September 1940 rather than October 1940, and the film says it happened on 15 October 1940, a day after it happened.
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Atonement / int_5a021b5e	type	JailBaitWait
Atonement / int_5a021b5e	comment	Jail Bait Wait: Another interpretation of the rape of Lola is that she and Marshall were having an affair and he married her as soon as she came of age.
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Atonement / int_60f992e8	type	Florence Nightingale Effect
Atonement / int_60f992e8	comment	Florence Nightingale Effect: While working as a nurse during the war, Briony tends to a French soldier wounded in the head. He mistakes her for an English girl he met in his childhood, but Briony plays along because she knows he's suffering. When he asks if she loves him, Briony says that she does (both the book and the movie makes it clear that Briony truly did, even if it was just for a few seconds). The soldier dies a minute later.
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Atonement / int_771f6307	type	BrotherSisterIncest
Atonement / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: The actor playing Leon, Cecilia and Briony's brother, believed that Leon and Cecilia's relationship had elements of this; director Wright commented that he wasn't sure he agreed with him on that, and speculated it may have been because so many of Ian McEwan's other novels have incest in them. Nonetheless there are a few moments in the film (and another in a deleted scene) that hint at this idea.
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Atonement / int_794095d7	type	Boxed Crook
Atonement / int_794095d7	comment	Boxed Crook: Robbie joins the army rather than stay in prison.
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Atonement / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Atonement / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: In the book, Briony openly states that there was no way she could end the story with the lovers dead, so she put in a happy ending. She furthermore tells the reader not to wonder what really happened. The movie makes it clear that Robbie dies of septicemia and Cecilia is killed in a bombing.)
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Atonement / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Atonement / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Cecilia is Type A for Robbie who is actually Type B for her. Ironically, his rude letter helps them confirm their feelings for one another.
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Atonement / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Atonement / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Unlike Briony and Lola, when Cecilia reads the rude letter she guesses it was probably a joke and asks Robbie about it. While he's clearly mortified, Cecilia appears to have found it funny.
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Atonement / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Atonement / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Briony is slashing nettles, she attributes to Lola the sins of Pride, Gluttony, Avarice and unco-operativeness.
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Atonement / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Atonement / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Thomas Nettle, who rambles on while Robbie and Mace are walking to Dunkirk.
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Atonement / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Atonement / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It's not said what becomes of Briony's family after the war. Cecilia breaks off contact with them as soon as she comes of age. Likewise, we never hear of Robbie's mother after her son was convicted.
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Atonement / int_887da4ea	type	Died Happily Ever After
Atonement / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: Cecilia and Robbie: it's hinted at in the end of the movie, but never stated in the novel
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Atonement / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Atonement / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: Happens a couple of times, with Briony's and Cecilia's viewpoints being shown out of chronological order before intersecting.
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Atonement / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
Atonement / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: When Briony visits Robbie in the London flat, he threatens to throw her down the stairs; quite different from the calm and soft-spoken Robbie we're used to. Especially compared to his Tranquil Fury when Briony faked drowning. This is a clue that the scene is entirely made up by Briony.
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Atonement / int_8ffd5bdc	type	The Penance
Atonement / int_8ffd5bdc	comment	The Penance: A non-physical example. Once Briony matures and realises the extent of what she's done, she refuses a position at Cambridge and volunteers as a nurse.
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Atonement / int_909e0a46	type	Gentlemen Rankers
Atonement / int_909e0a46	comment	Gentlemen Rankers: Robbie's upbringing qualifies him for an officer rank, but he is forced to be a private because of his criminal record.
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Atonement / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Atonement / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Played for Drama. Briony and Lola, being young and naïve, assume Robbie must be a sex maniac. They don't understand adult relationships at all.
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Atonement / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Atonement / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Briony's 'discovery' that Robbie was innocent.
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Atonement / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Atonement / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Robbie's reaction to being told that the wounded will be left behind at Dunkirk. He's not only badly wounded but dying at that point. Also a bizarre scene where Briony looks out a window at an old woman pushing an empty baby carriage. The narrator is an old childless woman.
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Atonement / int_99e4958e	type	Wall Bang Her
Atonement / int_99e4958e	comment	Wall Bang Her: Cecilia and Robbie in the library.
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Atonement / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Atonement / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: Robbie's last action is to light a match and take one last look at the postcard of the cottage by the beach where he and Cecilia were going to spend time. Briony tends to a dying soldier who thinks she's his fiancee. She plays along.
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Atonement / int_9de7a5d0	type	Fix Fic
Atonement / int_9de7a5d0	comment	Fix Fic: In a way, the whole book is Briony doing this in-universe.
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Atonement / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
Atonement / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: Though the tone was bleak as it was, there was the faint Hope Spot that Robbie and Cecilia managed to survive and live happily together, but The Reveal shows that both lovers, the most sympathetic characters, died without seeing each other after the meeting in the cafe.
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Atonement / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Atonement / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Briony (played by the blonde Saoirse Ronan) is described as having dark hair in the book. Given that brunette Keira Knightley was the first choice (for the adult version anyway) but chose to play Cecilia, this is presumably to distinguish the sisters.
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Atonement / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Atonement / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Paul Marshall who is guilty for raping Lola and allowing Robbie to take the blame for it. Briony doesn't realise his guilt until years later when it's too late to do anything about it. It's implied in both the book and the movie that Lola knew exactly who was raping her, and saw Briony's False Rape Accusation as a way out of an encounter that she may or may not have consented to. Judging by Lola's reaction to Briony at her wedding, she seemed to know that she (Briony) knew the truth, which means that she was perfectly willing to let an innocent Robbie go to prison for Paul's crimes. In that case she gets absolutely zero comeuppance for this, instead living the rest of her days as a rich woman and is healthy and hale the last time book!Briony sees her.
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Atonement / int_a89b3504	type	Irrevocable Message
Atonement / int_a89b3504	comment	Irrevocable Message: The obscene letter Robbie accidentally sends to Cecilia.
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Atonement / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: The book is narrated by Briony, who considers telling the story to be her "atonement."
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Atonement / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Atonement / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In the movie when Robbie hands the letter to Briony and she's had enough time to walk away, he realises he gave her the rude one by accident and shouts out "Briony!" - but to no avail.
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Atonement / int_adf84dea	type	What Beautiful Eyes!
Atonement / int_adf84dea	comment	What Beautiful Eyes!: James McAvoy got the part as Robbie Turner because the character is described as having eyes of optimism, and so does James, according to its director.
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Atonement / int_b3e3a659	type	Trading Bars for Stripes
Atonement / int_b3e3a659	comment	Trading Bars for Stripes: Robbie is forced to join the army to avoid a prison sentence.
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Atonement / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Atonement / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Only at the start. Briony is the blonde and her sister Cecilia is the brunette. When cousin Lola arrives, that gives them a redhead too.
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Atonement / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
Atonement / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: Robbie and Cecilia's relationship at the start.
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Atonement / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Atonement / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: For the audience. Robbie living in London with Cecilia makes the audience believe that he made it, that he got evacuated, Briony atones herself and everything goes back to somekind of normality. Only in the end we find out that all of this just happened in Briony's fantasy and both lovers died in 1940.
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Atonement / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Atonement / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Nettle clearly likes and respects Robbie and makes him as comfortable as possible when it becomes clear that Robbie won't make the night. He even takes his letters from Cecilia to return them when he makes it back.
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Atonement / int_c7aa8090	type	Hairstyle Inertia
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Atonement / int_c86b7046	type	It's Not Porn, It's Art
Atonement / int_c86b7046	comment	It's Not Porn It's Art: The rather lengthy sex scene in the book. Regarding the movie, Joe Wright states the love scene was inspired by a painting.
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Atonement / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Atonement / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: A variation. A wounded Robbie has just a day to wait until he's evacuated, at which point he can meet Cecilia. Is it any wonder if he makes it or not?
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Atonement / int_ca855eaf	type	Love Letter Lunacy
Atonement / int_ca855eaf	comment	Love Letter Lunacy: Robbie is frustrated trying to write a letter to Cecilia, and writes a vulgar, sexually charged one to work out this frustration. Afterwards, he writes a perfectly lovely one and gives it to his love's young sister to deliver. Guess what? He hands out the wrong one.
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Atonement / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Atonement / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Mace is one of the only nonwhite characters in both the book and the movie.
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Atonement / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Atonement / int_d129e13e	comment	Eureka Moment: Years later when Briony realises it was Paul Marshall she caught with Lola and not Robbie.
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Atonement / int_ddeaea82	type	Miscarriage of Justice
Atonement / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: Robbie who gets sent to prison and later the army for a crime he didn't commit. The rude letter he wrote Cecilia and Briony's testimony just implicates him even further, as does the fact that he's the gardener's son - and all other suspects are upper class.
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Atonement / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Atonement / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: One would be forgiven to think that Cecelia and Robbie are the main characters of the film (especially from the promotional materials), but really it's Briony.
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Atonement / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Atonement / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Robbie's mother assaults the police car after her son is taken away. It doesn't amount to anything but points for effort.
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Atonement / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Atonement / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: When she's a nurse, Briony is reprimanded for letting patients call her by her first name. The ward sister only addresses her by her last name.
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Atonement / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Atonement / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Not initially. Although Cecilia is higher class than Robbie, he's a friend of the family and it's implied they probably wouldn't have objected to them getting together. But then Robbie is falsely convicted as a rapist and both of them later die in the war. Cecilia even states that her family stopped her from visiting Robbie in prison.
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Atonement / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Atonement / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The continuous shot on the Dunkirk beaches in the movie. It took three tries, and the cameraman fainted afterward. At one point you can see an actor trip and recover.
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Atonement / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Atonement / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Present but it isn't the bulk of the story. It is however the reason the lovers never get to be together.
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Atonement / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Atonement / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: see Died Happily Ever After
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Atonement / int_fd0925ef	type	Bitch Alert
Atonement / int_fd0925ef	comment	Bitch Alert: Briony from the scene where she tries to get her cousins to rehearse her play.
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Atonement / int_fd4f8299	type	WellIntentionedExtremist
Atonement / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Word of God has it that Briony creates such a mess because she's so goodly and so certain of herself. Probably also qualifies as Lawful Stupid.
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Atonement	hasFeature	Jerks Are Worse Than Villains / int_3e992dc4
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Atonement	hasFeature	Overcome with Desire / int_3e992dc4
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