Atonement (2007)
I just watched "Atonement" (2007) the Oscar-nominated film directed by Joe Wilson and based on the Ian McEwan novel.
You must see this. It is marvelous and very much a writer's film.
posted by greg rappleye at 10:27 PM
Saturday, October 11, 2008
I just watched "Atonement" (2007) the Oscar-nominated film directed by Joe Wilson and based on the Ian McEwan novel.
You must see this. It is marvelous and very much a writer's film.
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- Name: greg rappleye
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I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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8 Comments:
I agree, Greg, but I enjoyed the book more - I love his books, they are always gripping. Have you read "Saturday"? Somehow the book leaves more to the imagination. I didn't feel all the characters were like I imagined them. But I agree it is a good film and deserved the praise it received.
We can all add Atonement to the long list of films I was supposed to like and fell asleep on.
It is, at least, in good company. The first film this happened at was Citizen Kane, which I still have not watched to the end.
Yes, the book was better (as usual) but I loved the film. Especially Vanessa Redgrave's moments at the end. Heartbreaking stuff.
And it is very much a writer's book. I read On Chesil Beach last winter, which was beautiful and tragic.
I liked both book and movie but was disappointed by the ending in both. Seemed more like an evasion than an ending.
I had not read the book before seeing the movie. I liked the ending--at least in part because I like Vanessa Redgrave in just about anything.
I thought the amazing tracking shot on the beach at "Dunkirk" alone was worth the price of admission.
I hated this book and I really, really don't like Ian McEwan. Call me crazy.
Hannah:
Interesting.
Marcia doesn't like McEwan either--and has read more of him than I have--through she did think the movie was good.
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