Atonement: Dianne’s Point of View

I was really looking forward to a good movie, so I was disappointed when Atonement did not meet my expectations. I understood most of what the director was after, but that doesn’t mean I enjoyed all his points of view. I thought all the different scenes made the movie too slow, especially at the beginning - not enough happened to keep me interested.

It reminded me of The English Patient, another award-winning movie about the horrors of war and what it does to the individual and relationships. Just like Elaine on Seinfeld, I found it devastatingly slow and boring. It just took too long for anything to happen. It was too much like real life that way. That’s why we go to movies, isn’t it? To escape our own boring lives.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not like my husband who has to have lots of action in a movie to like it, such as a car chase or guns blasting away. I just need more happening on the screen than in my own life. Maybe my life is more exciting than the average one. After all, I’ve always lived in Montana or Colorado and I’ve had to opportunity to travel a lot. I’ve met a lot of interesting characters and have my own stories that would make good movies…

So maybe I need to do something about that rather than complain about boring movies. Hmmmm…..