As Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) is hauled off by the Police and his mother frantically yells "liar" while running up the road, Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) peers from a staircase landing through a window decorated with figures in stained glass. The figure in the window Briony stares through is labelled "Matilda". This is an allusion to a famous children's poem by Hilaire Belloc entitled "Matilda", whose first line runs, "Matilda told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch one's eyes". By the end of the poem, Matilda has burned to death, having called wolf one time too many.

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