Disappointing Remains of the Day (old work)

Green 2022-03-24 09:02:15

Saw Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson's Remains of the Days. Seriously, a little disappointed. Because this film has been honed for 14 years and has received rave reviews, the analysis is also very good; I am more because Obsessed with Anthony Hopkins in Nixon and Silence of the Lambs, and Emma Thompson in In the Name of the Father, I finally decided to buy a sneak peek into my little "movie library" that I've collected since I left home for a year. In.
The result was a disappointment. Anthony Hopkins is really like the character, he is more than dumb, and there is no shining point. I think his only better scene is when his father died by his side, and he died because of loyalty (this one) The theme of the film reflects love and loyalty), as the chief steward to entertain the host with a feast full of crowns and covers, enduring the pain in his heart (but not the pain, I think), and still performing his duties without changing his face. Emma The heroine's pursuit of love played by Thompson is even more abrupt and without logical context. Although Emma Thompson interprets the autonomy and uniqueness of women, it is not enough to make up for this shortcoming. In the film, she and Anthony Hopkins in the conflict one by one Often the success of this role, but the development and performance of her showing of love for the male protagonist is unflattering, giving the impression that she heard a maid say she was going to be with his boyfriend --Emma Thompson goes to Anthony Hopkins's study to make a bold gesture of love in the last scene after the servants who also work at Darlington Hall are getting married. A sudden scene!

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  • 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.