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Genius Bonus: After Briony has accused Robbie of raping Lola, she is shown standing in front of a stained-glass window of St. Matilda, the patroness of the falsely accused, and also the subject of a nursery rhyme that begins "Matilda told such awful lies/ She made one gasp and stretch their eyes..."
Hope Spot: For the audience. Robbie living in London with Cecilia makes the audience believe that he made it, that he got evacuated, Briony atones herself and everything goes back to somekind of normality. Only in the end we find out that all of this just happened in Briony's fantasy and both lovers died in 1940.
Narm: Some of the drama about the obscene letter leads to this in the movie. Especially when the word "Cunt" is flashed on the screen, leading to unintentional hilarity.
It's not unintentional. The screenwriter Christopher Hampton talked about this scene at a screening this troper went: he said that the scene was meant to play out like a comedic farce, to maker the turn for the tragic all the more shocking. This is a departure from the books where the horror of the situation is mostly played straight.
Tear Jerker: When Briony reveals that what we have been watching was her book with a falsified ending and that Robbie and Cecilia died and never had their chance of happiness entirely because of her actions. She grants them in fiction what she denied them in life. It's the only way she could deal with the guilt of what she had done.
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