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Atonement is a British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in three time periods, England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for fiction. Briony Tallis, a year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family's country estate with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis. Her older sister Cecilia has recently graduated from the University of Cambridge with Robbie Turner, the Tallis family housekeeper's son and Cecilia's childhood friend Robbie received a first in English while Cecilia received a "humiliating third" , with whom she eventually develops a relationship.
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Racy subject aside, the film provides a good-humored yet serious-minded look at sexual self-liberation, thick with references to art, music, religion and literature, even as it pushes the envelope with footage of acts previously relegated to the sphere of pornography. Different territories will reportedly see different cuts, according to local decency standards. After a hypnotic opening sequence — a back-alley symphony of sorts, featuring the drum of rain on tin roofs — an older gentleman named Seligman Stellan Skarsgard finds Joe Charlotte Gainsbourg bloody and abused on the cold, wet pavement. In that respect, the film appears to be interpreting itself, as Seligman points out cultural references imposing everything from Christian symbolism to Fibonacci numbers and offers unsolicited feedback along the way.