Atonement

I always wanted to watch this movie, Atonement, since it was launched last year. Actually, I wanted to read the book first before the movie; I know it would be the book I enjoy. However, I couldn't bring the book over from Singapore or getting it in China. I have to go for the movie first, which I still enjoyed. Viola, one more book on my wish list.

A couple of quotes I really like from the movie:

Robbie Turner: [voiceover] Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

Older Briony: So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for... and deserved. Which ever since I've... ever since I've always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I'd like to think this isn't weakness or... evasion... but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.