Back to school; Movie: "Atonement"

In our first week of school after vacations we watched and analize a movie called "Atonement". This movie  is a 2007 British romantic drama war film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan. The film stars James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Saoirse Ronan. It was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in England and France. Distributed in most of the world by Universal Pictures, it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 September 2007, and in North America on 7 December 2007. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_(film)

We had to respond some questions about what we watched: 

1. What sort of social and cultural setting does the Tallis House create? What emotions and impulses are being acted upon or repressed by its inhabitants?

2. A passion for order, a lively imagination, and a desire for attention seem to be Briony's strongest traits. In what ways is she still a child? Is her narcissism - her inability to see things from any point of view but her own - unusual in a thirteen-year-old?

She is almost in all senses a child. The attitude she has got of not accepting that she may be wrong and just believing her own part of the story, makes her a child. It probably is her narcissism, apart from other features of her personality, that makes for her impossible to stop believing in her point of view and focusing the problem from other perspectives.

3. Why does Briony stick to her "version of the story" with such unwavering commitment? Does she act entirely in error in a situation she is not old enough to understand, or does she act, in part, on an impulse of malice, revenge, or self-importance?

3. Why does Briony stick to her "version of the story" with such unwavering commitment? Does she act entirely in error in a situation she is not old enough to understand, or does she act, in part, on an impulse of malice, revenge, or self-importance?

1- Its a very traditional and rich english family, emotions and impulses that could seem wrong for their status are repressed, the best example is how love is repressed by the characters on the movie.

2- Her lively imagination is still childish and also her desire for attention, this things mix with her adult behaviour. Her narcisism is not normal for a thirteen year old girl, because is an age when childs are still learning and start comprehending issues of life.

3- Because she still have child issues on her mind and this mixes with all things that she saw that are very convincent for acquiring a wrong image of the situation. Also we can presume that she feels jealous about her sister because she likes Robbie.

4- Because as she gets older she start to see things on a different way and becoming a mature woman. When she thinks about the situation of Robbie and Cecilia she regrets hardly about her mistake, the author feels guilty for the rest of her life so she decide to write a book, telling the real story of Robbie and Cecilia but giving it a happy ending.