My roommate Nicole recently saw the movie atonement a few weeks ago. She’s since watched it over and over and over again. Nicole is in the Music and Movies course here and she’s using the movie for her final project. I’d liked Atonement when I first saw it, visually it’s just jaw-droppingly shot. There’re these wide desolate shots with drab greys and pale beige. Everything always just looked a little bland and dirty. Then a deep and saturated color would be thrown into the frame. Keira Knightly was a great lead and the movie had a moving and lilting kind of way about it. Nothing was rushed and by the end of the twoish hours of the film I was left wanting more.
However, since Nicole was in a music in the movies class I heard the soundtrack and accompanying sounds of the background over and over. It really sparked an interest once I knew what to listen for. The opening sequence begins with one of the young protagonists typing a play script up on her typewriter, her furious tip tap noises evoked into a anxious beat – later she rips the script and runs down the stairs and across her house to the beat of her own typing. After Nicole explained the motifs and the meaning of certain instruments to evoke different emotions, my respect for the movie was completely renewed.
I’d urge anyone who hasn’t seen it yet to do so – I don’t want to give anything away, but it’s an amazing movie and really a piece of art that gets to the heart of atoning for sins and the burden of truth and the strength to admit when you are guilty.
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