Astral doubles, Madame Blavatsky and a story about a tragic 19th-century romance, a distorted mirror of J.'s romance with V., all come into play, as J. circles back to his starting point, which was about loss and nostalgia and attempted redemption within a morally shattered universe.
Is memoir writing an attempt at redemption, or an act of revenge?
Tom's turn toward music is, of course, an attempt at redemption — or, at least, maturity.
The film is often mistakenly thought to be Griffith's attempt at redemption in light of the racial violence associated with "Birth of a Nation".
One was the monumental flower-covered "Puppy" (1992), an exuberance of innocence that many have viewed as an attempt at redemption from the sex pictures.
Breaking Bad is really just a drawn out character study watching one man's descent into sociopathy and his vain attempt at redemption.
If Steven Gerrard and John Terry have made up their minds to atone for the excesses and disappointments of the past by setting aside their egos in one final attempt at redemption, they are doing a pretty good job of it.
The ending was the one we feared, Hatton's attempt at redemption culminating in a crushing defeat eight seconds from the end of the ninth when he was left writhing on the floor in agony from a wicked left hook to the ribs.
But with little other than the fairy-princess blueprint to go on, there's often just one result: weddings that are a vessel for not only a lifetime's worth of hopes and dreams, but also a bumbling attempt at redemption and womanly reinvention.
In response to the attempts to suppress his magnum opus, Griffith published a pamphlet titled "The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Speech in America," and later produced a film curiously titled "Intolerance_._" The film is often mistakenly thought to be Griffith's attempt at redemption in light of the racial violence associated with "Birth of a Nation".
