‘Atonement’ Director Reed Van Dyk on Iraq War Drama Overlapping With Current Iran-U.S. Conflict: “History Repeats”

As director Reed Van Dyk brought his 2003 Iraqi war drama about a U.S. Marine soldier seeking forgiveness from a family he devastated with his actions in a firefight to the Toronto Film Festival, he pointed to parallels 23 years later with the current Iran-U.S. war in the Middle East. “One of the things I thought making (Atonement) was that you feel the ripple effect from one small incident, on one day, into all of these lives, as bombs fall and they’re caught up in a war. So many years later, I felt these incidents are just multiplying over and over and over again, in every new conflict,” Van Dyk told a Roy Thomson Hall audience during…