long day scars

Nels 2022-04-20 09:01:51

Like "Shadowland", Anthony Hopkins forbears and can't help revealing love; it is like "Sense and Sensibility" about the repression and release of love. I feel that the British theatrical tradition has a certain similarity to Eastern aesthetics, which makes me feel that the protagonist is not far from me. There are several scenes that are very moving: 1. Kenton asked Stevens what book he was reading, one pressed, the other hid, like a show of love; 2. Kenton said to Stevens that someone proposed to him, and Stevens still Suppressing himself, Kenton's face gradually faded into darkness, like a lost heart...

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The Remains of the Day quotes

  • Miss Kenton: [about a new housemaid] You don't like having pretty girls on the staff, I've noticed.

    [teasing]

    Miss Kenton: Might it be that our Mr Stevens fears distraction? Can it be that our Mr Stevens is flesh and blood after all and doesn't trust himself?

    Stevens: [with the faintest trace of a smile] You know what I'm doing, Miss Kenton? I'm placing my thoughts elsewhere as you chatter away.

    Miss Kenton: ...then why is that guilty smile still on your face?

    Stevens: Oh it's not a guilty smile. I'm simply amused by the sheer nonsense you sometimes talk.

    Miss Kenton: It *is* a guilty smile. You can hardly bear to look at her. That's why you didn't want to take her on, she's too pretty.

    Stevens: Well, you must be right Miss Kenton, you always are.

  • Miss Kenton: I don't know what my future is. Ever since Katherine, my daughter, got married last year, my life has been empty. The years stretch before me and if only I knew how to fill them. But, I would like to be useful again.