Interestingly enough my parents have just seen ‘Atonement’ and, I am delighted to report, absolutely loved it. Reading back on my review of it I seem very tentative and yet it is quite simply one of the best things I have seen in a cinema for a very long time and a superb adaptation of one of the best novels I have ever read. Why was I so cautious? I did have a strong sense of not wanting to give the game away and also, I think, I believed that it would be misunderstood and undervalued as the book often is. I admit I secretly thought it might not do too well and that I would just end up hurt that a film I loved so much and was so moved by would get kicked around in the mud. I went through it with the book and probably wasn’t too keen to go through it again with the film.
Anyway… it seems to be doing well and I need not have worried. I can drag my parents along for a second viewing! It really has made my week to know they liked it.
