Films/DVD Asylum

"Atonement" -- Finally meat for the table...

69.250.54.30

mpathus

...Amazing filmic literature with outstanding screenplay and cinematography -- a banquet for the eyes and mind.

This film is modern yet Shakespearean in its presence of mind. It is fully vetted and its meaning will stand a testament.

The root psychology of impulses rigorously play themselves out in this lushly photographed "Atonement" and make for a very absorbing experience.

Yes, I liked it -- a LOT.

Follow Ups:

I had that reaction to "The Painted Veil" - DWPC 16:50:28 12/31/07 (0)
Though I didn't like Ed Norton as an Englishman. But I expect when I see McAvoy in "Atonement" I'll probably think of his silly faun get-up in the Narnia movie.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats

Edits: 12/31/07
"Atonement" - rico 13:09:05 12/31/07 (0)
The exquisite tracking shot at Dunkirk is easily on a level with the pan through the glass ceiling in "Citizen Kane", The opening of "Touch of Evil" (restored version), The last shot in Antonioni's "The Passenger", and the opening shot in Altman's "The Player". I would include the ballroom scene in Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons but, as everyone here knows, the studio butchered that masterpiece and only hints of the continuous nine minutes survive.
I liked it "okay"; I actually liked "A Very Long Engagement" more (nt) - townsend 16:40:13 12/30/07 (0)
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then they are marketing it poorly; it looks lik a chick click. - Duilawyer 08:34:13 12/30/07 (3)
Unless it is?
- The film certainly seems accessible... - mpathus 20:24:43 12/30/07 (0)
  ...for both sexes and carries more weight than most.
  
  "Atonement" explores how the abuse of trust wills to spite, how love's eternal power sustains, and a bunch more elegantly woven analogous symbolism.
  
  Great foreplay for some, but not quite "Harry met Sally" -- oysters vs onion rings?
- And what's wrong with a "chick" flick pray tell? - Harmonia 12:56:55 12/30/07 (1)
  No, in fact the romance is a very small part of Atonement. It's actually about much deeper things the marketers are obviously trying to appeal to fans of Wright's previous effort Pride & Prejudice - which was an excellent adaptation for chicks or gents.
  
  I don't think movies concerned with matters of love and society are strictly for chicks BTW.
  
  Movies for dummies are fluff whether they're idiotic rom-coms or empty headed action flicks.
  - The use of "chick flick" as a descriptor... - EBerlin 14:23:01 12/31/07 (0)
    ...has always struck me as pretty juvenile. A film can be good or bad whether or not it takes a more masculine or feminine point of view. I prefer to try being well-rounded so I like to watch "both" kinds of films (as if there's even a hard and fast distinction between them).
    
    Oh, look. Now I've gone all "sensitive" on you. I guess I'm really just a woman in wolf's clothing.
    Elliot Berlin

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