Homesickness

Mozelle 2021-12-11 08:01:23

I want to read it again after reading it. The countless details are worth remembering. In the noble and solemn mansion, the beasts upstairs and the servants of the beasts downstairs, there is a faint smell of murder in the air, as if nostalgia.


This is such a calm movie, without any surprises. I thought about it, maybe it was calm because it didn't have a trace of warmth, it was only cold enough to be numb.
It shows part of the characteristics of this world so perfectly, of course, perhaps the most important one.

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  • Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.

    Mary Maceachran: Elsie?

    Constance: Hmm.

    Mary Maceachran: She's gone.

    Constance: Aw, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.

  • Mrs. Croft: He's very full of himself, I must say. Doesn't eat meat. He's coming to a shooting party and he doesn't eat meat.

    Mrs. Wilson: Now now Mrs Croft. We don't want to be thought unsophisticated do we? Mr Weissman's an American. They do things differently there.