How lethal is a lie? The 13-year-old girl directly changed the fate of 3 people just because of one sentence! This novel of the same name, adapted from the British novelist Ian McEwan, is ostensibly about a little girl whose lies destroy the love of two people, but it is actually a tragedy of life in a big time.
Cecilia, the tragic heroine played by Kylar Knightley, surprised everyone with a green dress. She was a lady of the aristocratic manor who fell in love with the butler's handsome son Robbie, and the two were also alumni of Cambridge University. The ambiguity of two reserved young men in love with each other but restrained fills the air with the smell of hormones. The sensitive sister Brioni senses the abnormality of the two people, she peeks at Robbie's love letter to her sister, and then bumps into two people stealing in the study, and identifies Robbie as a big sex demon.
When her cousin is raped, the young and ignorant Brioni identifies Robbie by imagination and ruins the future of a great youth. When World War II broke out, Robbie, who had been in prison for 3 years, went to war, and Cecilia became a nurse. The two thought they could be happy together after the end of the war, but Robbie did not return from the Dunkirk evacuation, Cecilia was killed in the London bombing, and the lover left this world in regret.
The first half of the film is hazy, beautiful and romantic, like a brightly colored oil painting. The love of the two hot young people in that summer was restless, passionate and ambiguous, and wanted to refuse to return, and they behaved exceptionally delicately and beautifully, making everyone nervous and excited, blushing and heartbeating!
But how beautiful love is, how tragic the ending is. Young men and women who love each other are forced to separate because of a false accusation, and their lives are ruined! Robbie was taken away by the police and disappeared into the night suggesting falling into the abyss, and three years later the dark clouds on the battlefield, countless corpses, desperate and crazy soldiers on the beach, were as terrifying as the end of the world.
One of the most tear-jerking scenes in the film is Robbie holding a picture of the two planning to go to a beach house, and Cecilia's call to go home echoes in his head, but he never wakes up. The young man who had a bright future and was full of vigor gave his young life in the war.
Even more ironically, cousin Rossi is married to the rapist businessman, and they comfort the retreating soldiers, and they are reported on TV to be endless! Young soldiers innocently lose their lives and futures, while businessmen and politicians gain wealth and fame in war, and the world is so cruel and ironic!
Was the tragedy of Cecilia and Robbie's love only caused by Brioni? It's far from that simple! Class, status, prejudice, hypocrisy, etc. are enough to send a low-level youth to hell, and Robbie, as a subordinate, can only bear the blame for this rape case and become a scapegoat for the powerful. What about studying at Cambridge and having a higher education? In the face of crises and wars, Robbie has no power to fight back at all, and can only become a victim of society!
This is not a simple love story, but a story about war, love, and the sins of human nature. In the movie, we see the complex side of human nature, Brioni's jealousy, prejudice, stubbornness, cousin Lola's probauchery, vanity, businessman Marshall's shamelessness, obscenity, etc., in the face of these human sins, Robbie and Cecilia's love seems so sincere and precious!
The film is unique in that it narrates the story from the third perspective of her sister Brioni, who grew up as a nurse, spent her life repenting to atone for her sins, and wrote the story into a novel in her later years to give her sister and Robbie a happy ending. However, this also reinforces the fatalistic color of the protagonist of the story, and there is a kind of depression and regret that is sad from the bottom of the heart and has nowhere to tell. This is a personal tragedy and a tragedy of the times, and those who make mistakes are trying their best to make up for it, but the times can no longer save the lives of those young people who have passed away!
After watching the movie, I was greatly shocked by the heart, the cruelty of war, the ugliness of human nature will destroy beautiful people. In the torrent of fate, life becomes so impermanent, missing is a lifetime, separation is a farewell, which makes people sigh. In this world of hypocrisy, dirtiness and ugliness, fortunately, the beautiful and hot love that remains in human nature shines brightly, and it is the warmest touch that brings us to the bottom of our hearts!