The story takes place in Gosford Park in the English countryside in 1931. The owner, Sir William, is a rich man with a big belly. He started a factory in his early years and ran a wealthy industry. At the beginning of the film, there are various people and their respective servants who came from all over the country to hunt in the countryside. The masters teased and flirted in the living room, and the servants ironed and cooked in the dimly-lit operation room downstairs, while inquiring about their respective masters' private lives, debts and purpose of being here.
The beautiful maid Mary looked like Jodie Foster, with big clear eyes and an innocent face. She was Sister William, a cheaply hired servant of a certain countess. She accidentally discovered that William and the fat cook were having an affair in the kitchen, and she also knew that her favorite maid, Sylya, had an affair with the master.
The film is subtle and methodical, one by one describing the plans of the various people and the emptiness and boredom: the wretched Mrs. William's wife (Scott Thomas as "The English Patient", "Four Weddings and One Funeral") seduces a handsome young man from America; the earl Madam was worried that William would stop paying her living expenses, and inquired about other people's intentions to come here through Mary; the declining nobles who married the daughter of an American glove factory always felt that they could not hold their heads, and hoped that William's daughter would write a check for him. Short, his brother-in-law who wanted to invest in Sudan secretly attacked with a shotgun while hunting, and the bullet scratched William's ear...
Luxurious, decent life is a conflict of human nature, servants look down on each other, suspicion and snooping; the mistresses are graceful Under the evening dress, there are expressions of force and mutual attacks.
From the beginning of the movie, I knew someone was going to die, and I guessed it would be Sir William, who was the center of all hatred: the family hated him for being cold, authoritarian, and mean; the servants hated him for being abusive. Love and rudeness.
When the film went on, a servant said that he grew up in an orphanage and didn’t know what his parents were doing, I vaguely guessed that maybe the film would go along this line of thinking. Sure enough, his mother was a factory worker, and his father was not. know what to do.
I guessed that this tall, handsome young man was a murderer who stabbed his own father. But he did not expect that the elegant butler who looks exactly like the current Queen Elizabeth II of England is his biological mother. She accidentally discovered that her son was raised in an orphanage. Anticipating this visit, she intended to murder, so she preemptively poisoned Sir William to death.
Marie sensitively captured all of this and asked the mother and son why they killed each other - mixed with entanglements and past events from decades ago.
Fortunately, in this story, no Polo or Sherlock Holmes came out to solve the case. After a big silly inspector talked to everyone, he let everyone go. There was no end to the case, and Marie said a word to the Countess: This doesn't change anything... The film just came to an abrupt end.
With the graceful sound of the piano that runs through most of the film, all are happy to end the tour and leave Gosford House in silence...
26 June 2005 London Fog
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