Atonement

Wow, for a while there I thought this was another overdone fluffy trying to hard romance film. And then....the ending. Holy shit. That woman has the tightest shot on her face and she can't hide if she has a horrible performance. Instead you see miles of pain and regret and longing to rectify her horrible wrong. I understand the oscar nod for the little girl but the older self was so gut wrenchingly painful and beautiful, that you cannot overlook her. Don't get me wrong the little girl was so great you hated her but without that ending, it's just another movie with the lower class boy in love with the unattainable higher class girl torn between family and love.