I am very ashamed to watch this drama for the purpose of learning English pronunciation instead of watching this drama for the sake of watching this drama.
British actors often laugh at themselves, and they are not actors if they have not played Downton Abbey and Harry Potter. In Downton Abbey, the group feeling is one of the elements I really like. It is meaningless to pursue the male protagonist, female protagonist, male second, female second and other elements in this drama (in fact, many British and American dramas are like this), each character has his own personal story that involves the main line, even in It's confusing in the short term. But when the ending story line briefly came to an end, we felt how realistic and organized everything was, and these things might have happened in the middle of the summer of 1912, in that old manor.
Everything about the manor is stylized, so it's necessary to introduce new things and characters to move the plot forward, lest the audience get bored. At this point, Downton Abbey's treatment is also more reasonable. The plot dialogue in each scene will not exceed five minutes at most, and the short storylines are connected together, so that the audience can pay attention to and participate in these parallel events from the perspective of God with relish.
On the premise that I haven't watched the rest of the seasons, I tend to summarize the main tone of Downton Abbey in the first season as "qualitative change". The so-called quantitative change becomes qualitative change, and quantitative change refers to the people living in the manor, as well as what happens inside and outside the manor, and perhaps the physical changes of the manor itself, but this is visible to the naked eye, even if it is not obvious.
The change in attitude towards rules is another important manifestation of this qualitative change. Almost everyone trapped in this inheritance dispute is faced with the constraints of rules, order, and tradition. Inheritance is not only about money and status, but also about obedience and maintenance of class identity. At the lower level that this class has no time to take care of, the insignificant little people are also experiencing the torture of rules and order. They have been enslaved for too long, and they even almost lost their instinctive impulse to slap the table. But luckily they weren't completely wiped out - Downton Abbey was never hopeless, even if it faced a crisis like never before. Its walls are constantly fading, its foundations are constantly sinking, and its life is constantly passing, but qualitative changes have brought about a turning point. If the times cannot change the will of man, then what can save the manor?
In the last episode, in the dark and crowded servants' dining room, William finally threw a fist at Thomas, who was speaking evilly. Suddenly, the room was filled with exclamations, and the strictly orderly and orderly basement became chaotic. It indicates that this ancient manor can no longer be as peaceful as it used to be - at least not even to pretend. It is like the heavy and huge ship that shocked the world at the beginning of the whole play. At first no one knew why it ended so tragically, until later generations found the tip of the iceberg that it hit, and the mess after that. In-ship order.
And now, our Downton is very reluctantly "drifting" on this land, and is about to usher in the fire of World War I, which is in jeopardy.
A detailed analysis of each character in the play will inevitably be lengthy and complicated, but it is very necessary. Let's wait until the full season. I finished this review in a hurry. On the one hand, it is some self-compensation for my "bad motives" for watching Downton Abbey, and on the other hand, it is because I can't wait to start the second chapter of the show. Like all viewers, like all those who live in Downton Abbey, like all the British people, I have been eagerly following the events that followed.
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