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...