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Another inexplicable number of characters
Lizeth 2022-03-25 09:01:10
#片片# Finally finished the novel and the movie. Because of the film's own advantages, some plots of the original novel were well presented, especially the scene where MISS KENTON wanted to read the title of the book was full of tension. Some of the novels made me a little confused. The passages are also clearer in the film. He has always preferred the reserved and restrained British style. Because of his "dignity" as an excellent housekeeper, STEVENS has imprisoned his heart and prevented others from entering, thus losing his normal family affection and causing MISS KENTON to give up himself because of his indifference. love for him. Compared with passionate love, rational and implicit love is obviously more beautiful, but for the sake of one's own career, is it worth it to almost strictly require oneself to restrain all the feelings that ordinary people should have? STENVENS in the novel finally tries to make himself have some sense of humor, although I have no hope for this, but maybe he wants to try to live for himself and make himself happier, but in the movie he returns to the house and repeats past life. (ps: The cast is very strong, and the acting is also very strong, not to mention the male and female protagonists, the supporting roles HUGE GRANT, Uncle REEVE, and Cersei's soy sauce)
Extended Reading
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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.
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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.