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A soldier vows " I will go back, I will make things right again, I will
get my name back .."
At this point, your feeling a sense of optimistism about the story. What was a mistake can be made right, irregardless of how bad the present conditions are and, even though the character are now busy fighting one of the bloodiest costiest wars ever -- world war II..
Its also these words that haunt you after the story is over. because , after the middle of the story to the end, your suddenly realize and quite abruplty..] your
sense of optimisism -- was misplaced.
We see an episode, of where the two main characters, robbie, and ezel are living together and are happy with each other.. and that he was able to get out of battle obligations and somehow they can set the record straight. That was only a chapter from the authors book. The reality reads differently.
Like the scenes throughout the middle of film of the soldier walking through a war zone, and seeing soldiers trying to live a life in these desperate war times..the camera takes you past random faces of soldiers as if to say everyone has their own struggles and problems... and how the main character in all of this is trying to search for a simple drop of water through all of this..adds to the theme of brutish reality that the director protrays . He ends up walking into a movie threater trying to find water, , the screen has a couple kissing each other..and the soldier folds his hands over his face as if the scene brings back too much emotions that he can't see it any more....He remembers his own love affair, now on a track far away from a love affair...and that now only resides deep in his memory.
It is these scenes, of the soldier past being remembered as he walks in the present days of battle both the real wwII and his own struggle to come to his own internal terms of what happened to him, that provide a glimpse to the audience, the conflicts he faces. On one end, a betrayal from a girl who he loved and protected deeply from her childhood..ON the other hand, a love affair is he trying deperatetly as the story says "TO COME BACK TO ( her)" even though he has obligations to the army and she herself has obligations of wartime nursing.
You see, its this sudden flip in the end, we as the audience find a sense of relief from the tension , thinking okay everything is getting resolved, they made their amends, and he said what he wanted to get off his chest. But it is
this tension, that is Twisted pulled apart like a rope made of straw being pulled at its sides until it breaks...or like a glass plate suddenly being dropped on the floor and ensueing half second silence that which everyone suddenl observes..to register the impact of the event, it is with this type of shock and awe the author presents the truth of what actually happened...
The fictional atonement we were led to believe ..was all happening only in the authors mind...the truth is..
she never got a chance to make her amends with her mistake, because
before she could , ..war broke out.. everyone had to be busy.. and robbie died in war, with a postcard given to him by his lover 6 months ago ..elize ( the lover) ...also died in her nursing duties drowning in a tunnel...
A Postcard showed a house next to the beach. this is kept by robbies side till his death...s, he light a match and sees this postcard with his dreamy half-alive eyes, he longs for this postcard to become a reality. We find out later, that he died later that night..because of complications of not having enough water, which he was frevently tried to search for, so he can stay alive to complete his mission of togetherness with his lover.
A poignant scene that ties together the middle and end is the this thumping you hear. its the humping of an umbrella of robbies mother against the police car which is taking her son to prison...the thumping is continous and keeping going on and on, showing how much the mother pines for her sons sake...the thumping is real..but in the end of the film...as the author is telling what really happened to robbie and elize, we hear this same thumping, that has a haunting feeling of a mother pain coming back from the grave , as if she herself is hearing the story of her only childs whereabout, and as if her pines still utters eternally from her very own grave.
In the middle of the soldiers search for water, ..we see an interlude of a dream, because the film becomes fuzzy, we see the soldier walk into a room, and its mother there, and he is so happy all of the sudden, the mother helps him take off his shoes and the progtagonist finds some warmth and feels relax being with his mother couch and its as if he is back again with his mother in real life and they are both happy that they are seeing each other again...but the fuzzy scenes ends abrupty -- its actually another dead end attempt of the protagonists attempt to find water.
And this pretty much summaries the movie as a whole.. We are dreamily believing the author throughout the second half that things are working to resolve themselves, ..but like the fuzzy dream that ends abruptly, we are also abruptly brought to the reality of what actually happened.
And it is this point, that makes this movie a step above other films. This is not a commerical love drama...THIS IS what COULD have happened in reality in a wartime zone in british aristocracy. IN bollywood, random meetings happen out of the blue.. but in reality, as this film tells us..making something right and, making amends, is not so easy. We can't always drop our wartime duties, and go back home. We can't drop what we're doing to find out tha person who can set us right. We dont have another options sometimes other than choosing between to stay in prison or to got prison. We have to find water to survive. This is the reality of reality.
And the Authors makes it a blunt fact for us to confront, this very fact.
That is the meaning of the story. ITs atonement, that never was. that never can happen.. its an irony. its called atonement, but anything in reality is never really atoned for, only in the author fictional storyplay..
Its a scene, in between the story as the author is retelling the truth of what happens and you see an interlude of a solder walking towards the sun in a grain of wheat fields, reminds you of another simliar-themed "make things right again" work ...Gladiator...and that scene once again shows finally the author telling the truth, and interluded with the reality the soldier walking towards the sun in search of his "atonement" and the authors words suddenly changes to a tone of depravity...as if to say......i m not lying..this is the truth. this is the reality. And it is/was brutal..
get my name back .."
At this point, your feeling a sense of optimistism about the story. What was a mistake can be made right, irregardless of how bad the present conditions are and, even though the character are now busy fighting one of the bloodiest costiest wars ever -- world war II..
Its also these words that haunt you after the story is over. because , after the middle of the story to the end, your suddenly realize and quite abruplty..] your
sense of optimisism -- was misplaced.
We see an episode, of where the two main characters, robbie, and ezel are living together and are happy with each other.. and that he was able to get out of battle obligations and somehow they can set the record straight. That was only a chapter from the authors book. The reality reads differently.
Like the scenes throughout the middle of film of the soldier walking through a war zone, and seeing soldiers trying to live a life in these desperate war times..the camera takes you past random faces of soldiers as if to say everyone has their own struggles and problems... and how the main character in all of this is trying to search for a simple drop of water through all of this..adds to the theme of brutish reality that the director protrays . He ends up walking into a movie threater trying to find water, , the screen has a couple kissing each other..and the soldier folds his hands over his face as if the scene brings back too much emotions that he can't see it any more....He remembers his own love affair, now on a track far away from a love affair...and that now only resides deep in his memory.
It is these scenes, of the soldier past being remembered as he walks in the present days of battle both the real wwII and his own struggle to come to his own internal terms of what happened to him, that provide a glimpse to the audience, the conflicts he faces. On one end, a betrayal from a girl who he loved and protected deeply from her childhood..ON the other hand, a love affair is he trying deperatetly as the story says "TO COME BACK TO ( her)" even though he has obligations to the army and she herself has obligations of wartime nursing.
You see, its this sudden flip in the end, we as the audience find a sense of relief from the tension , thinking okay everything is getting resolved, they made their amends, and he said what he wanted to get off his chest. But it is
this tension, that is Twisted pulled apart like a rope made of straw being pulled at its sides until it breaks...or like a glass plate suddenly being dropped on the floor and ensueing half second silence that which everyone suddenl observes..to register the impact of the event, it is with this type of shock and awe the author presents the truth of what actually happened...
The fictional atonement we were led to believe ..was all happening only in the authors mind...the truth is..
she never got a chance to make her amends with her mistake, because
before she could , ..war broke out.. everyone had to be busy.. and robbie died in war, with a postcard given to him by his lover 6 months ago ..elize ( the lover) ...also died in her nursing duties drowning in a tunnel...
A Postcard showed a house next to the beach. this is kept by robbies side till his death...s, he light a match and sees this postcard with his dreamy half-alive eyes, he longs for this postcard to become a reality. We find out later, that he died later that night..because of complications of not having enough water, which he was frevently tried to search for, so he can stay alive to complete his mission of togetherness with his lover.
A poignant scene that ties together the middle and end is the this thumping you hear. its the humping of an umbrella of robbies mother against the police car which is taking her son to prison...the thumping is continous and keeping going on and on, showing how much the mother pines for her sons sake...the thumping is real..but in the end of the film...as the author is telling what really happened to robbie and elize, we hear this same thumping, that has a haunting feeling of a mother pain coming back from the grave , as if she herself is hearing the story of her only childs whereabout, and as if her pines still utters eternally from her very own grave.
In the middle of the soldiers search for water, ..we see an interlude of a dream, because the film becomes fuzzy, we see the soldier walk into a room, and its mother there, and he is so happy all of the sudden, the mother helps him take off his shoes and the progtagonist finds some warmth and feels relax being with his mother couch and its as if he is back again with his mother in real life and they are both happy that they are seeing each other again...but the fuzzy scenes ends abrupty -- its actually another dead end attempt of the protagonists attempt to find water.
And this pretty much summaries the movie as a whole.. We are dreamily believing the author throughout the second half that things are working to resolve themselves, ..but like the fuzzy dream that ends abruptly, we are also abruptly brought to the reality of what actually happened.
And it is this point, that makes this movie a step above other films. This is not a commerical love drama...THIS IS what COULD have happened in reality in a wartime zone in british aristocracy. IN bollywood, random meetings happen out of the blue.. but in reality, as this film tells us..making something right and, making amends, is not so easy. We can't always drop our wartime duties, and go back home. We can't drop what we're doing to find out tha person who can set us right. We dont have another options sometimes other than choosing between to stay in prison or to got prison. We have to find water to survive. This is the reality of reality.
And the Authors makes it a blunt fact for us to confront, this very fact.
That is the meaning of the story. ITs atonement, that never was. that never can happen.. its an irony. its called atonement, but anything in reality is never really atoned for, only in the author fictional storyplay..
Its a scene, in between the story as the author is retelling the truth of what happens and you see an interlude of a solder walking towards the sun in a grain of wheat fields, reminds you of another simliar-themed "make things right again" work ...Gladiator...and that scene once again shows finally the author telling the truth, and interluded with the reality the soldier walking towards the sun in search of his "atonement" and the authors words suddenly changes to a tone of depravity...as if to say......i m not lying..this is the truth. this is the reality. And it is/was brutal..
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