Mysterious Miss Kenton
Even by British standards, the film is restrained enough - the story is not missing, the plot is fairly simple: Lord Darlington in rural London, involved in secret diplomacy with Germany before World War II, after the war was regarded by public opinion as a The traitor died in depression. Fortunately, the mansion was bought by Lewis, a former US congressman who had criticized his appeasement rhetoric before the war, and Stevens, the old housekeeper, was able to continue to work in the mansion. But when I ask myself, there are still things I don't understand: What does it tell us? love? marriage? Family life? Or is it a cut from a certain angle of a major historical event? Both are. Compared with Stevens, who spent more shots, I would rather believe that the heroine, Miss Kenton, is the real protagonist, because the director told you all about Stevens' life: he served Lord Darlington. In the second half of his life, he was proud of this, and adhered to his professional ethics, sometimes even unreasonable. Of course, he arranged too many responsibilities for his father in order to lead by example. When his father died of illness, he was loyal to his duties and also had self-blame elements that he could not face. With such a foreshadowing, it was all too natural to reject Miss Kenton's feelings. What about Miss Kenton? Where is she from? I prefer to believe that she grew up in an orphanage because obviously she has no family and Lord Darlington was furious when he drove away the two German refugee girls from a Nazi point of view and can reveal her sympathy for homelessness , but in the end she relented, and it was even more evident that she knew the homeless's unwarranted capital; she married Mr. Ben in a hurry, because she had just hit a wall from Stevens. The humiliation (the "pissed off" she wrote to Stevens) may also have included her longing for a family; but children who grew up in orphanages, after all, are not so good at handling marriages (remember NBA star Rodman ?), she finally couldn't get used to the emptiness after her daughter's marriage, and almost ran away from home, but the news of her daughter's pregnancy made her find her new role and went back with her husband. As for Mr. Stevens, how could he not have feelings for Miss Kenton? He hurried to get the letter as soon as he received it, and always called people "Miss Kenton" instead of "Mrs. Ben", which he took very seriously. The work also spends a lot of space describing the comments of various people on Lord Darlington, and it is by no means just one-sidedly placing him on the pillar of shame for treason, not to mention that it was pointed out by Lewis in the early days of the situation. Sir Sir's mistake lies in the "gullibility" of the nobles. After the war, he criticized Churchill through the mouths of passers-by in the bar, which can be regarded as reminding the audience that the appeasement policy is not without public support. Looking at it this way, although history has declared the bankruptcy of this policy, how much of it was a fluke? How much does it cost? new It is of course easy for Wenjie to fall into trouble, because the result is already there. Digression: Most of the films in CCTV's 8 "Best Films Have an Appointment" column are not worth watching, but occasionally there are good films, and this one belongs to the latter.
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