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Rating: When duty is pleasure, is pride, is the pervasive factor of your whole life.
When loyalty is above your ideas, your beliefs, your "soul."
"Evening is the best part of the day. You've finished a day of work and now you can sit down and be happy."
When love, first filial and then true, deep, and unique towards a woman, becomes your reason for living and equally your most unutterable secret.
When you live from others' lives and become part of them as a background motif, faded and almost invisible.
When you realize that your only treasure leaves you, exhausted, and you do nothing to stop her, like an immovable rock or a centuries-old oak rooted in the ground.
When with an act of courage, you hope to grasp life again, and life withdraws, incapable of responding after so much immobile and petrified will.
"It's the choices we make that define who we are."
When you see Mr. Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) and a Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson) again, and you root once more for them, hoping for a hug and a more fitting ending... you can't help but drift in a sweet sea of melancholic nostalgia, sipping a fragrant "jasmine tea," in the soft glow of some candles.
Pieces of advice are useless: those who have "enjoyed" the film's images, an excellent and faithful adaptation of the story, or who had the fortune to know its plot beforehand, know why!
[Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Remains of the Day," Einaudi Tascabili, 2005]
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