I suppose I would say that overall I liked Atonement, even though it didn't really get interesting until Chapter 8, when Robbie wrote the letters for Cecilia, one intended to be sent and one that was not intended to be seen by anyone and certainly not sent. There's nothing like a bad word to catch one's attention.
You best wash your typewriter out with soap.
It's certainly true that sex sells, because the scene in the library is probably the most memorable scene in the book and movie. Robbie and Cecilia's relationship is obviously central to the story line, and I don't think that this book and film would have been as well received, if it had continued the staid pace and not spiced things up.
I felt that the movie was better at skipping right to the good stuff rather than agonizing over detailing every leaf in the scene, but the novel described the war scenes on the road to Dunkirk, but the movie brought to life the scene of the soldiers impatiently waiting to be evacuated.
Overall, I think that the most critically applauded aspect McEwan integrated was the twist ending, in which we learn that Robbie died of septicemia at Dunkirk and Cecilia died in the Balham bombings. That the happy ending in which they are reunited is revealed to be fiction created by Briony as a way to reprieve herself from the guilt she had felt for years.
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