多伦多，9月29日——2003年4月，一个亚美尼亚基督教家庭的三代人正驱车返回巴格达的家中，途中遭遇美国海军陆战队与伊拉克部队的交火，陆战队向他们的车辆开火，打死了三名男子。
TORONTO, Sept 29 - Three generations of an Armenian-Christian family were driving home in Baghdad in April 2003 when US Marines in a firefight with Iraqi forces fired on their cars, killing three men.
近十年后，在那次袭击中幸存的两名女性，在加利福尼亚州格伦代尔的客厅里，与当年扣动扳机的其中一名海军陆战队员坐在了一起。
Almost a decade later, two women who survived the attack sat down in their Glendale, California, living room with one of the Marines who pulled the trigger.
这一幕正是《赎罪》的高潮。该片是编剧兼导演里德·范戴克的剧情长片处女作，本月在多伦多国际电影节举行了北美首映，并将于周五登陆院线。
That encounter serves as the climax of "Atonement," writer-director Reed Van Dyk's feature debut, which had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this month and opens in theaters on Friday.
影片改编自德克斯特·菲尔金斯2012年发表于《纽约客》的一篇文章，肯尼思·布拉纳饰演记者迈克尔·里德，他报道了那场枪战并安排了这次会面。希亚姆·阿巴斯饰演玛丽亚姆，这个家族的女家长，她的丈夫和两个儿子在事件中丧生；博伊德·霍尔布鲁克则饰演卢·达历山德罗，一名寻求宽恕的前海军陆战队员。片中人物姓名与真实人物有所不同：现实中的前海军陆战队员叫卢·洛贝洛，家族一方是玛格丽特·卡查多里安，记者则是菲尔金斯。
Based on a 2012 New Yorker article by Dexter Filkins, the film stars Kenneth Branagh as Michael Reid, a journalist who reported on the gunfight and arranged the meeting. Hiam Abbass portrays Mariam, the family matriarch whose husband and two sons were killed, while Boyd Holbrook is Lou D’Alessandro, the former Marine seeking forgiveness. The names were altered from the real-life characters: former Marine Lu Lobello, Margaret Kachadoorian and Filkins.
范戴克在接受路透社采访时，与演员们一同出席。他表示，典型的伊拉克战争电影中，伊拉克角色往往“是通过狙击镜看到的，或者只是背景”，而他决心颠覆这种视角。
Van Dyk, speaking to Reuters during an interview with the cast, said Iraqi characters in typical Iraq War films are "viewed through sniper scopes or in the background," and he set out to invert that perspective.
“把那些深受这一事件以及整个战争影响的人放在中心位置，对我来说非常令人兴奋，”他说。
"It was really exciting for me to centralize these people who were affected deeply by this instance and by war in general," he said.
从伊拉克回国后，洛贝洛一直与创伤后应激障碍作斗争，始终被那天他的部队打死了平民的记忆所困扰。
After returning from Iraq, Lobello struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, haunted by the memory that his unit had killed civilians that day.
“这颗子弹是双向的，你能真正看到卢在艰难面对这一点，”霍尔布鲁克说，呼应了片中的一句台词。
"This bullet goes both ways, and you’re really seeing Lou grapple with that," Holbrook said, echoing a line from the film.
洛贝洛最终请求菲尔金斯帮他与卡查多里安一家取得联系。这家人同意会面，并原谅了他。
Lobello eventually asked Filkins to connect him with the Kachadoorians. The family agreed to meet, and they forgave him.
阿巴斯说，在塑造玛丽亚姆这个角色时，她融入了自己作为母亲以及在战火周围长大的巴勒斯坦女性的经历。她说，玛丽亚姆的宽恕能力令她深受触动。
Abbass said that, in portraying Mariam, she channeled her experience as a mother and a Palestinian woman who grew up around wars. She said she was struck by her capacity for forgiveness.
她说：“这位女性能够宽恕，但想象一下，地球上经历过那种境况的人中有多少是无法……宽恕的。”
"This woman was able to forgive, but imagine how many people on Earth that lived that situation are incapable to ... forgive," she said.
布拉纳称影片的核心互动是“一次非凡的脆弱之举”，并赞扬双方都愿意展开对话，即便没有明确的解决方案。
Branagh called the film's central interaction an "extraordinary act of vulnerability" and praised the willingness of both sides to have a conversation without a clear resolution.
他说：“留给观众的是处于绝境中的人们之间一场极为深刻的交流，他们要找到困难的答案——如果这些答案能够被找到的话。”《赎罪》将于10月2日在部分影院上映，10月9日广泛上映。
"You’re left with a tremendous sort of interchange between people in impossible situations with difficult answers to find — if they can be found," he said. "Atonement" opens in select theaters on October 2, expanding widely on October 9.