The long day is approaching, there are a lot of twilight shots in the movie, and the beautiful and slightly dim manor makes people feel the tragic beauty of the passing of an era when the sun sets, the great things dissipate, and the tragic beauty.
Love, the housekeeper sees through the autumn water, does not say a word, and has a stern smile on his face. In the eyes of today's people, it is an embarrassing British old fashioned, but the housekeeper himself regards it as professional ethics or professional dignity, and he repeatedly mentioned it. To be decent, not to panic, not to show excessive feelings or even normal feelings, the highest level is to see a tiger in the living room and still serve the master without changing his face. And this kind of pursuit, this style, always seems embarrassing and insufficient when facing the person he loves deeply. They are in love with each other, one said they like to work with him, the other said that he likes the coming of night the most. So you can live with it. But times are changing, and people's ways of falling in love are also changing. The men and women outside this house are expressing their love freely and enthusiastically. When the male and female servants get married and leave, the first thing to pry open is the thought of the heroine. She wants to go further. , I want to know what books he reads, what he likes, and want to be with him. But the male protagonist, like his master, has always been stubborn enough to be unable to change this way of doing things. What he thought might be to work closely with her like this, and it is enough to see her flowers and face every day. , and going further left him at a loss, and explained feebly that reading romance novels is to improve his English. The movie was adapted from the novel, but would Miss Kenton accept such a man and such an emotion in real life now? I seem to see myself, and I often can't express my emotions well when interacting with others, and the people I like often can't feel and respond to my emotions... In modern times, there are also many pains of love but not being understood. That's one reason why the movie is still moving, albeit not the main theme
Going far, back to the movie, another theme is the demise of the balanced aristocratic democratic government of the British Empire, and the representative character is the owner of this house. But let me speak from the butler's point of view.
People live for something in their hearts, ah, meaning. The old butler was addicted to his elegant work, even if it was world events or his own feelings, he was second, he was wandering around and didn't pay attention. But when talking about the political world in the tavern, the real meaning of his life appears, rather than a simple career ideal, and perhaps it is the ideal he is talking about. Imagine if he left the house, would he still be so sure of the meaning of his career, he repeatedly mentioned that this house is the world, and he trusted from the bottom of his heart that his master would help him realize the best political choice, thus Abandoned his own judgment and choice, fired the Jewish maid, even if proven wrong in the future. And the doctor openly laughed at people like him, thinking it was a stupid choice for democracy to hand over power to such people, and was so proud of it, saying that after the proof, in fact, he was ridiculous. Humanoids will either go to dictatorship, ruled entirely by those who think they are smart, with no law or sense of responsibility; or they will abolish the aristocracy and allow every citizen to have the political knowledge to fully participate in democracy, but this will lead to democratization and inefficiency . Neither of these are good polities, but the polities represented by the stewards, and the polities that maintain a delicate balance are the best. And this type of government will eventually disappear with the advent of World War II and the modern world. The nobles collectively take their hunting dogs on horseback, and the maids are confidently wiping in the house (in modern times, it is difficult to find, which is also the so-called personnel problem of the housekeeper, Burning bread in the eyes of modern people is a matter of machines, but in the era of stewards, it was a personnel problem. How can you imagine a cook burnt bread), the market owner's shop full of food and fruit ( The modern era is replaced by large supermarkets), large kitchens full of neat pots and pans, and scenes of fat cooks cooking, all of which have disappeared. These are the authors, and members of the United States Congress, nostalgic.
The long day is approaching, and an era is about to leave, and the housekeeper must live his life without knowing it, and participate in it without knowing it. This is also the power of tragedy.
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