Words that kill as surely as war.(ATONEMENT)

From: Daily Variety | Date: February 5, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

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Atonement" has plenty of Oscar-movie gloss: literary pedigree, a tony British setting, tragic romance, luminous stars in period costume, even a dollop of Good War heroism.

But with its eccentric narrative and its shocking last-second twist, "Atonement" takes those trappings and spins them into something more unsettling than a typical period drama. Here is a story in which words kill as surely as bullets, no less so for coming from the mouth of a child.

Ian McEwan, a producer on the film, wrote the novel about a budding writer whose childhood ...

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