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The Atonement is a cinematic experience that depicts a lonely man faced with the failure of all consolation. Job is no longer the biblical patient, but a young, unkempt body that traverses bare and claustrophobic places as if they were psychic thresholds. Each environment is a fragment of consciousness that is consumed, a remnant of faith that has survived the collapse of all theodicy. In the film, the protagonist, realizes that no justice will come from above, nor from the community, nor from a shared moral order. If guilt cannot be redeemed, then it must be paid for. The Atonement becomes a self-imposed gesture, not a ritual expiation, but a real act of flesh and blood, of presumed justice inflicted on the world and on God in a desperate attempt to restore balance to the world when all is silent.Read moreLess
The Atonement is a cinematic experience that depicts a lonely man faced with the failure of all consolation. Job is no longer the biblical patient, but a young, unkempt body that traverses bare and claustrophobic places as if they were psychic thresholds. Each environment is a fragment of consciousness that is consumed, a remnant of faith that has survived the collapse of all theodicy. In the film, the protagonist, realizes that no justice will come from above, nor from the community, nor from a shared moral order. If guilt cannot be redeemed, then it must be paid for. The Atonement becomes a self-imposed gesture, not a ritual expiation, but a real act of flesh and blood, of presumed justice inflicted on the world and on God in a desperate attempt to restore balance to the world when all is silent.
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The Atonement is a cinematic experience that depicts a lonely man faced with the failure of all consolation. Job is no longer the biblical patient, but a young, unkempt body that traverses bare and claustrophobic places as if they were psychic thresholds. Each environment is a fragment of consciousness that is consumed, a remnant of faith that has survived the collapse of all theodicy. In the film, the protagonist, realizes that no justice will come from above, nor from the community, nor from a shared moral order. If guilt cannot be redeemed, then it must be paid for. The Atonement becomes a self-imposed gesture, not a ritual expiation, but a real act of flesh and blood, of presumed justice inflicted on the world and on God in a desperate attempt to restore balance to the world when all is silent.
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- Director
- Carmine Lo Regio
- Director
- Paola Esposito Mocerino
- Screenplay
- Carmine Lo Regio
- Director of Photography
- Paola Esposito Mocerino
- Editor
- Paola Esposito Mocerino