I can't say I really warm to it. It's well acted, the casting of the protagonist Briony Tallis is very good, and the set pieces of the Dunkirk beaches very evocative but, like a lot of adaptions, the literary devices don't work very well on the screen. Also the leads don't seem to spark passionately as you think they might. It's a film with a hollow center.
Saturday 1 June 2013
Atonement
As part of my LoveFilm subscription, this has been gathering dust for the best part of a year, so I finally got round to watching it. An adaption of the book by Ian McEwan, it's a fiction story about a fiction story; about authors and their works; about an act of childish, jealous cruelty and it's consequences.
I can't say I really warm to it. It's well acted, the casting of the protagonist Briony Tallis is very good, and the set pieces of the Dunkirk beaches very evocative but, like a lot of adaptions, the literary devices don't work very well on the screen. Also the leads don't seem to spark passionately as you think they might. It's a film with a hollow center.
I can't say I really warm to it. It's well acted, the casting of the protagonist Briony Tallis is very good, and the set pieces of the Dunkirk beaches very evocative but, like a lot of adaptions, the literary devices don't work very well on the screen. Also the leads don't seem to spark passionately as you think they might. It's a film with a hollow center.
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