I have never read Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Even though he won the Nobel Prize and feels that the cultural span is too large, after watching this film more than 20 years ago, he still has not escaped the control of Japanese culture. It is difficult to summarize what Japanese culture is in one sentence, but in this film, the spirit of forbearance emphasized by the Japanese is indeed brought into full play. I have seen an old Japanese film before, and it is also about a samurai who repeatedly rejected a woman's kindness for a revenge plan, and did not want to drag her down. Ishiguro moved the setting of the story to England, in the castle of the central figure of the appeasement policy of World War II, so the fate of the era and the love and hate of the little people were so intricately intertwined. The male protagonist Stevens perfectly interprets the ancient Japanese samurai and retainers, and in the strong old-school British style of modern times, he has been faithfully fulfilling the highest standards of a butler for decades. Loyalty and professionalism prevented him from being by his side when his father passed away, and had to supervise an important dinner party. It also prevented him from standing on the side of the voice of the people's struggle at the juncture of the nation's survival, let alone confronting him in the workplace. If another girl has any admiration behavior, all he has is pedantic ignorance, inhuman indifference, a machine without thoughts and brains, a coward who dare not show his feelings, and he will stay out of the country's righteousness and the warmth of the world. From start to finish, he only smashed a bottle of wine on the night the housekeeper accepted someone's marriage proposal, and other than that, he was perfect. Dignaty, being silent, is part of the Bushido spirit in Japanese culture, and then it is the forbearance of sacrificing self-emotion, using the life of a bystander to see the prosperity of the world, even in the face of loved ones, to extreme pain and self-abuse To the extreme, it is to be cool to the sky, and only in this way can this kind of people feel at ease, and they are qualified to say that this is loyalty. Personally, I feel that Ishiguro has such a kind of coincidence. It is impossible for the British to do this. The servant couple in the film is more like the British. What if they have no money, they just want to resign and get married. More than 2 hours of sensationalism, until the last one was old and still playing with ambiguity, this kind of love has gone crazy, and it can only be said that Stevens is good.
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