After seeing the original author, I breathed a sigh of relief. In my impression, the British people are restrained and restrained, but they are not so perverted. It is wonderful. Kazuo Ishiguro grew up in the United Kingdom. The silence of this film is depressing (for me ) very Japanese.
Sarah asked him "why don't you always show your emotions", Stevens is too boring, his father is a first-class housekeeper, he trained him to be a first-class housekeeper, and turned into a shadow for their proud dignity , never have their own thoughts and emotions, everything is subject to the owner.
His most facial expression in the film is expressionless (although Hopkins's acting is superb, his pain, struggle, hesitation, and tiredness can be read from his expressionless expression... but in the end, he is still expressionless), even if his father Died, even if Sarah told him about his marriage like a pissed off, even if the Duke's godson (the perceptive young man of the new world - fire!) sincerely invited him to chat like a friend, there are too many things in the manor , and he is the steward in charge of everything. He has countless things that he can devote himself to when he does not want to face the truth. In the end, you have to wonder whether his almost numb obedience and unmistakable humbleness Is the professionally demanding performance...or is his mind and emotion really blunted by years of performance.
... That doesn't matter, he doesn't need his own, he just has the master's - he said that the master should be looked up to, not only because of his status, but also because of his moral transcendence.
He believed in his master wholeheartedly, and even if there was a brief doubt, he would eventually convince himself to believe him.
And the master, the miserable Duke of Darlington, the noble gentleman who was taken advantage of, thought that old-fashioned goodwill was enough to solve a problem (even if it was a world war), and of course he was a good man - but when you stand in the face of history, this noble What is the use of kindness? At other times, of course, he was a nobleman that everyone praised, but only in that meeting, in that living room, his kindness and weakness made him an accomplice to the executioner.
I have never been reluctant to criticize those who stand at the crossroads of history and make mistakes, really, because it is really difficult to grasp the whole picture of things, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have the kind of self-consciousness of "I am history". It is geniuses who make the right choice, but most of our politicians (even good ones) are just ordinary people.
But I do want to blame the Duke of Darlington - how can you not see? You think about the German friend who committed suicide, you are moved by his sacrifice, and you are determined to work hard to maintain your relationship with Germany. You started from an individual.
—Then how could you not see the two Jewish maids? How could they be indifferent to what happened to them? You can't grasp the trend of the times, and you can't see the whole picture of things, but how can you not see the sorrow of individuals? How could they not realize that the head of state who expelled his own citizens and made them suffer is not a good kind?
You confused, weak, mediocrity who should never be in such a high position.
Sarah, the housekeeper played by ET, how extraordinary she is! Meticulous, but brave and enthusiastic, an untamed soul, beautiful when young, wearing a beret, pushing a bicycle, and eyes like a small beast. In the study, she pressed Stevens to ask what book he was reading, "a sentimental love story", combined with the poor man's joke in the greenhouse, "Do you admit that Mr. Stevens is also afraid of his own temptation, Stevens Mr. Si has feelings too?" - With you, who is so vigorous and so brave to defend the two maids, how can he not be moved?
The two partings were her heartbroken crying. I was most afraid of her crying, and subconsciously reached out to touch her blonde hair. The first time she was about to get married, but it was just a prank, a silent cry to Stevens" Look at me! Say it! As long as you say it - I'm going with someone else, won't you keep me?" But Stevens was too silent, it was a rock, and it was only a matter of hearing her cry. Tell her where the windows need to be cleaned, what a comfort! "Don't you want to say something to me? After we've known each other for so long?" "My most sincere blessings." - Deservingly he missed her, she did the best effort in that era, but sadness is inevitable, what's the matter How? If this person suppresses himself and makes his soul deaf and dumb, then the people around him must endure the lack of emotion. And the second time, the second time after 20 years, the footnote of bad timing, the conversation with my husband at the restaurant made me think that they have separated, but Catherine, her daughter is pregnant, she is naturally happy, but she can't be separated anymore. Drive here and never go back to Darlington House.
She said that after many years, she found that she loved her husband, and she would definitely go back. When she came back with her husband and daughter, she seemed to firmly believe that she would be happy, but why-why did she say, "We have all done things that we regret. "? Why on the bus, hidden behind the rain curtain, still cry in desperation like 20 years ago?
Stevens couldn't change his mouth at the beginning, subconsciously called her Miss Kenton, but finally changed it, Mrs Benne, that's it, he drove back to the old house, the only sober in that meeting twenty years ago The U.S. Congressman who cried out, "You're all laymen!" bought the late Duke's estate, where he'd continue to work, where he'd spent most of his life, made many mistakes, missed a few opportunities, Historically and personally, he did not follow the words of the young man who died on the battlefield to persuade the duke not to be taken advantage of, nor did he follow his own heart to keep his Miss Kenton, and he could make up for it in twenty years. They won in the end. War - can it really be compensated? What to make up for the life of that fiery passionate, insightful young man? What to make up for Sarah's two tears?
The past is the eternal past. You can let a dove fly, but you can't bring back the past, and you can't make up for the era that has been lost forever and has ended.
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