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Adaptation 2008 1(2):151-152; doi:10.1093/adaptation/apn017
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FILM REVIEW

Atonement—The Surface of Things

Professor Peter Childs

University of Gloucestershire

Atonement. Dir. Joe Wright. Perf. Kiera Knightley, James McAvoy, and Vanessa Redgrave, 2007.

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Ian McEwan's self-consciously literary 2001 novel concerns itself with maladaptation and the processes of apology when there is no mechanism for seeking forgiveness. From its carefully realized opening recreation of the Tallis family's country house in the 1930s, Joe Wright's film accordingly highlights misperception and the failure of empathy. We are offered, as in the novel, two perspectives on the Jamesian seminal scene of ‘figures beside a fountain’, where a complex love triangle comes to the boil one hot June day when a vase is broken and Cecilia Tallis (Kiera Knightley) strips off to retrieve a broken piece from the water. A first perspective is that of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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