atonement
I know there's always a certain type of reader who will be compelled to ask, but what really happened?
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms.
No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.
-Ian McEwan, Atonement
(Oh, I believe I will love this movie - with its 5 minute-plus Stedicam shot, symbolic costume design, and typewritter-as-instrument in the score.)
well, so, i did not love it - but james mcavoy is just perfect.
Posted by: amy | December 19, 2007 at 05:12 PM