Briony spends the rest of her life attempting to make amends for what she now realizes is a false identification. She admits that in her final novel in which she tells the story that she created sequences. She claims it is out of kindness to those she has wronged, but isn't it more likely it is her way to ease her guilty conscience. No matter the true motivation for her manipulating the truth (again) the lives she destroyed were never repaired.
This film is a shocking reminder of times in the past (and present) where accusation becomes fact. A world in which credibility is never questioned when the answer matches the desire of the accusers. A scary world to to live in, indeed, at any time.
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