The Atonement

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  • The Atonement Is Necessary for Our Salvation
  • The Atonement
  • October 1996 General Conference
  • The Creation

    • A part fell into the pond, and Cecilia jumped in to retrieve it, but to Briony, it looked as if Robbie had ordered Cecilia to undress and go under the water.

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    Robbie drafts a series of notes to Cecilia apologizing for the incident, namely breaking the vase and laughing about it. One contains an explicit expression of his sexual desire for her, including the word " cunt ": He writes another, more formal letter, and asks Briony to deliver it. Only after she has gone does he realise he has given her the explicit letter. Briony reads the letter before giving it to Cecilia. Later, she describes it to her older visiting cousin, Lola, who calls Robbie a "sex maniac". Paul Marshall, a visiting friend of Briony's older brother's and a chocolate magnate, introduces himself to the visiting cousins and appears to be attracted to Lola.

    Before dinner, Robbie apologises for the obscene letter, but Cecilia surprises him and confesses her secret love for him. They then to proceed to make passionate love in the library when Briony walks in, and thinks that Cecilia is under attack. Cecilia and Robbie try to pass the incident off.

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    At dinner, Briony finds that Lola's twin brothers have run away, and Paul calls for a search of the estate grounds. In the course of it, Briony glimpses Lola having sex with a man. She goes to Lola, and they make statements to one another that appear to establish that it was rape perpetrated by Robbie. The belief is sustained during police questioning, and the earlier note is seen as corroborative evidence.

    Robbie's arrest and imprisonment follow. About four years later, during World War II , Robbie has been released from prison on condition that he join the army , and is fighting in the Battle of France. Separated from his unit, he is making his way on foot to Dunkirk , all the while thinking of his meeting with Cecilia in London six months earlier: Briony, now 18, has chosen to join Cecilia's old nursing unit at St Thomas' Hospital in London rather than go to the University of Cambridge , because she wants to be of "practical use to society". She writes to her sister, but Cecilia has not forgiven her for lying in the investigation years before.

    Robbie, who is falling gravely ill from an infected wound, finally arrives at the beaches of Dunkirk, where he waits to be evacuated. Later, Briony—who now regrets her lie—learns from a newsreel that Paul Marshall, who owns a factory supplying rations to the British army, is about to be married to Lola. Briony goes to the ceremony, and as the priest asks if anyone objects to the union, she recalls seeing Paul assault Lola.

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    However, she remains silent. As Paul and Lola leave the church, they glance at Briony, but also say nothing. Afterwards, Briony visits Cecilia to apologise to her directly.

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    She is surprised to find her sister with Robbie, who is in London on leave. Briony apologises for her deceit, but Robbie is enraged that she has still not accepted responsibility for her actions, when soldiers younger than she have died in the war. Cecilia calms him down, and the couple ask Briony to confess and to have the legal record rectified. However, she also has to tell them that Paul has married Lola.

    The Atonement Is Necessary for Our Salvation

    He is now most unlikely to be punished, as Lola will be unable to testify against her husband , and Briony will be regarded as an unreliable witness. Briony is now elderly and a successful novelist, giving an interview about her latest book that will cap her career; she is now dying of vascular dementia. She says that this autobiographical novel, entitled Atonement , has been very difficult to write, because she did not know how to approach what she had done to Robbie and Cecilia. She has worked on it from the very beginning of her career.

    The Atonement

    She confesses that the scene in the book describing her visit and apology to Cecilia and Robbie was entirely imaginary. Cecilia and Robbie were never reunited: Robbie died of septicaemia at Dunkirk on the morning of the day he was to be evacuated, and Cecilia drowned months later in the Balham tube station bombing during the Blitz. Briony hopes to give the two, in fiction, the happiness that she robbed them of in real life.

    The last scene shows an imagined, happily reunited Cecilia and Robbie living on in a house by the sea. The film was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of in Great Britain. Re-enactment of the Balham station disaster took place in the former Piccadilly line station of Aldwych , closed since the s. All the exteriors and interiors of the Tallis family home were at Stokesay Court, selected from an old Country Life edition to tie in with the period and pool fountain of the novel. It remains an undivided family home. The beach with cliffs first shown on the postcard and later seen towards the end of the film was Cuckmere Haven Seven Sisters, Sussex near to Roedean School , which Cecilia was said to have attended.

    The film opened the Venice International Film Festival , making Wright, at 35, the youngest director ever to be so honoured. Worldwide distribution was managed by Universal Studios , with minor releases through other divisions. The film received positive reviews from film critics.

    In Britain, the film was listed as 3 on Empire ' s Top 25 Films of The Australian edition of Empire gave it a five-star review, praising Wright's direction in the second half of the film, where he demonstrates "storytelling and technical flair to match his ability with actors". Corliss praised the film as "first beguiling, then devastating", and singled out Saoirse Ronan as "terrific as the confused year-old.

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    Justice, I thought, would serve both of us equally as well. He thought him foolish to have gotten himself into such a predicament. Why was Jesus Christ the only one who could atone for our sins? Then He was required to carry His own cross to the hill of Calvary, where He was nailed to that cross and made to suffer excruciating pain. He volunteered to answer the ends of a law previously transgressed.

    The American critic Roger Ebert gave it a four-star review, dubbing it "one of the year's best films, a certain best picture nominee. As for the film, he commented that " Atonement has hints of greatness but it falls just short of Oscar contention". The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of The film has received numerous awards and nominations, including seven Golden Globe nominations, more than any other film nominated at the 65th Golden Globe Awards , [31] [32] and winning two of the nominated Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture Drama.

    Atonement also ranks nd on Empire magazine's list of the greatest movies of all time. The film shows an Avro Lancaster bomber flying overhead in , an aircraft whose first flight was not until In the scene on the beach at Dunkirk, Robbie is told that the Lancastria has been sunk, an event that actually happened on 17 June two weeks after the end of the Dunkirk evacuations and at Saint-Nazaire , not Dunkirk. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Atonement Domestic Prints Poster. France [2] United Kingdom [2] United States [2].

    List of accolades received by Atonement film. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 11 April With a small cup of water, we signify that we remember the blood Jesus spilled and the spiritual suffering He endured for all mankind. We remember the agony that caused great drops of blood to fall in Gethsemane. The sequence of bread first and water second is not inconsequential. In partaking of the bread, we are reminded of our own inevitable personal resurrection, which consists of more than just the restoration of body and spirit.

    By the power of the Resurrection, all of us will be restored to the presence of God. The fundamental question facing all of us is not whether we will live but with whom we will live after we die. While every one of us will return to the presence of God, not every one of us will remain with Him. Through mortality, every one of us becomes soiled with sin and transgression. And the consequence of uncleanliness in the presence of God, Jesus made perfectly clear: In partaking of the sacramental water, we are taught how we may be made clean from sin and transgression and thus stand in the presence of God.

    By the shedding of His innocent blood, Jesus Christ satisfied the demands of justice for every sin and transgression.

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    Atonement is a romantic war drama film directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwan's novel of the same name. The film stars James McAvoy. Atonement is a British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in.

    He then offers to make us clean if we will have faith in Him sufficient to repent; accept all the ordinances and covenants of salvation, beginning with baptism; and receive the Holy Ghost. Upon our receipt of the Holy Ghost, we are cleansed and purified. Jesus made this doctrine very clear:. Repent, all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless before me at the last day.

    This is the doctrine of Christ. Through the sacramental prayers, we express our acceptance of this doctrine of Christ and our commitment to live according to it. In so doing, we are making solemn commitments to exercise faith in Jesus Christ and in His Redemption of us from death and sin. If our thoughts, words, or actions have been less than what they should have been in days past, we recommit ourselves to more closely align our lives with His in days to come.

    Brothers and sisters, the most important event in time and eternity is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He who accomplished the Atonement has given us the ordinance of the sacrament to help us not only remember but also claim the blessings of this supreme act of grace.