Compared with leaving marks in the past, I still prefer the name Farewell to Youqingtian. This way the story will sound less depressing. Anthony Hopkins should be familiar with such a role. This extremely suppressed and restrained character can only be interpreted by eyes and certain body movements. The film is adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "Scars of the Day", directed by James Ivory, starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher River, Hugh Grant (since watching the recent " British Scandal, I can't look at him anymore). From the perspective of Stevens, the butler of Lord Darlington's mansion, the story tells the scenes that took place in this luxurious manor after World War I to World War II. Of course, it also includes the so-called so-called never spoken by him and the housekeeper Miss Kent. of love. The beginning of the film is Emma Thompson's Kent's voice-over, reading a letter to Mr. Stevens, and the tone is as flat as water, which makes me a little unbelievable, but I wait until I watch the whole film. It was found that she could only speak to Stevens in such a tone. And the emotional line between the hero and heroine Stevens and Kent is really weak and weak, so weak that it makes me feel that this is by no means a pure love movie. The echo of the main line and the sub-line always feels that the sub-line is more exposed. The appearance of US Congressman Lewis seems to be a foil for Stevens. He pointed out at the international conference many years ago that the leaders and gentlemen present here are no longer able to solve any problems. This seems to imply that the housekeeper Stevens He was imprisoning himself under his own principles and so-called self-esteem. He couldn't go a step further. Even if he had love for Kent, he could suppress it mercilessly. What kind of restraint was this? It was almost cruel. Cruel to himself is even more to Kent. His stewardship, his principles, keep him imprisoned in this big luxury house forever. Nothing will change, or he doesn't want to change. These are above his relationship with Kent, so he is under restraint Not responding to this relationship, congratulating Kent calmly on the news that Kent is getting married, and continuing to stay in the house and be content with being her own housekeeper, even if the owner of the house has changed. The scene of two people grabbing books in the study should be the most classic scene. She forced him into a corner, she broke his hand with force, he raised the hand that he never put down, and the two of them had eyes full of love. , can all be broken by the phrase "don't disturb my few minutes of my own". And Kent is outspoken, "unprincipled", which is different from Stevens. When he Stevens made fun of her for not resigning because of two Jewish women workers, she bluntly admitted that she was a coward and she dared not Leaving here, she has no home except here, in exchange for Stevens "you are indispensable to this manor...you are extremely important to this manor", from Kent's eyes, we can tell that she is Somewhat shocked. But this "truth revealing" only happened once and stopped abruptly. From now on, more temptations will only make him doubly restrained. It's just that when Kent showed his heart to him, did she see the tears in his eyes? In the end, after many years, when he felt that it was time to compensate her, everything had changed by accident, but what exactly was his unknown compensation? Is it love? He looked at the pigeons that were let loose by Lewis and flew out of the window. Did he ever have the slightest idea of leaving and changing? But was it this luxurious manor that imprisoned him? Of course not, it's just him who is imprisoning him.
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