Does "atonement" really exist?

Recently, I saw a father's article on the Internet, which said that on July 26, 2020, he received a text message sent to him by his son "I really can't get out", after replying to him, his son did not reply, when he realized that the situation was not right, he panicked and rushed to the roof, looking for a circle, did not see anyone, when he went down to the first floor, 110 and 120 had come, and his life came to an abrupt end at this moment. He regretted that he had put tremendous pressure on his son as he was growing up, and when his son sent a distress signal, he felt that this was an inevitable process of growing up. After the incident, he despaired, grieves, regretted, and every day he atoned for his sins and commemorated in a different way. But will the deceased son really forgive all this? Can this father's heart really be let go? Is there really atonement for sins? This reminds me of the movie Atonement.

Atonement, starring Kayla Knightley, tells the story of a little girl, Brianne, who takes place in the quiet English countryside in 1935, with her sister Cecilia and her sister's lover Robbie. Little Brianne's naïve misunderstanding of Robbie at that time led her to imprison Robbie, leaving Cecilia alone to bear the pain of losing her lover. Growing up, Bryne regretted her ignorance and childishness, but never had the courage to see Cecilia. Cecilia didn't forgive her until the end. In the end, before her death in her later years, Breianne completed the last work of her life, the atonement.

Atonement tells of human forgiveness and repentance, and The end of Bryane's final life for her sister and Robbie is that she finally meets her sister and Robbie, they ask her to repeat the testimony, and finally they live happily ever after. However, the truth is that Robbie and Cecilia died one after another during World War II. Breianne never had the courage to admit it, and lived her life with a confession of the tragedy. What was originally a beautiful and expectant beginning, after its destruction, became a tragedy. During Robbie's World War II, there was a passage that touched my heart.

"My favorite Cecilia, our story will continue. As I walked that evening, I envisioned our future. I will once again put on my best suit, with a commitment to life, striding through the sunset-studded Surrey Park, I will continue to be romantic in the study with a passionate heart. Our story will continue, I will come back, find you, love you, marry you, and live together without complaint or regret. ”

Always looking forward to getting out of pain, helplessness and despair, misunderstanding will tear apart the purest love, naked cruelty. Brianne, at the end of the story gives Cecilia and Robbie happiness, yet, in fact, for a long time, she wanted to tell the truth, and in June 1940 she had not had the courage to go to see her sister, she had never been to Balham, and the scene in which she confessed to them was fictional. Robbie died of sepsis in Franco on 1 June 1940. In the end, Breianne can only escape her actions by confessing, not rhyming, not embellishing, and disintegrating. As the story ends, When Bryne Sr. preaches her twenty-first novel in front of television, she says, "My sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together , they both so longed for, and deserved . And which, ever since, I've... Ever since I've always felt I prevented . But what sense of hope, or satisfaction, could a reader derive from an ending like that ? So, in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I'd like to think this isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness "In the novel, she gives them happiness." The truth is just a change of direction of self-forgiveness and repentance. Tragedy is the destruction of good things for people to see. The story vividly interprets the beautiful young love into a tragedy, making people think about human nature. The tragedy of Cecilia and Robbie, and the tragedy of Brianne, because of ignorance and naivety, destroyed the good, whether to repent or forgive. Spending a lifetime repenting and thinking, and using a fictional happy ending to counter faults, is the most helpless and painful atonement. If In June 1940, Breanne had gone to see her sister, would the story have taken a turn?

When a fact happens, there is no such thing as repentance and forgiveness. The confession of human nature takes place at the beginning of the story until a long time after the forgiveness, but when the forgiveness does not happen, the confession does not actually exist. Brianne, never paid the price for her ignorance and naivety. For her, atonement for sins, it was something that could never be accomplished. Her atonement is in the process of life, slowly forgetting and repenting, in order to get a little forgiveness in her heart.

Perhaps, atonement, it does not exist.