KAZUO ISHIGURO on The Remains of the Day | Books on Film | TIFF 2017 

Certainly a great novel.

Currently reading it now. Almost done with it and I do agree it really is beautifully written.

Same ❤

The film was also brilliant.

Rembrandt might be stretching it, just a tad.

That would be subjective, so perhaps not so much of a stretch.

I heartily concur !

Letting the pigeon out was a scene where after all is said and done his life is probably full of domestic moments like that that are in some ways fun and exciting in their own way. Yes, he missed out on opportunities for love but he would have broken the rules he set out multiple times in the film about not getting involved with colleagues. It's the same thing today when your average joe goes to work, it's not always pretty mixing work and pleasure. He enjoyed a professional relationship with a woman and they both maintained their dignity at work, perhaps there could have been a love match there but that can be said of many relationships. She chose a different life with the free spirit that didn't live up to the dreams he sold to her. She has regrets. He has regrets. We all have regrets. I don't know which is the greater tragedy, not taking Miss Kenton, or not speaking when he could answer those three questions he was asked, or not speaking up for the two Jewish girls. It's all tragic but if it wasn't so tragic perhaps none of us watching the film would truly understand how dangerous it is to not allow ourselves to feel. to not feel love, pain, grief. All I wanted was for Mr Stevens to drop just one tear from his eye as those lights came on and everyone cheered. I wanted it to fall at least on his right eye that was turned from her and she wouldn't be able to see it fall from his face. But all I got was tears that welled in his eyes when he realised his second chance was truly gone. I got the same feelings at the end of this film that I had with the ending of the film LA LA Land. It was the pain of what might of been for both people, and the harsh reality that is having many choices in life, but in the end, there is only one path we can take. We can't go back in time, we can't have a second chance, we have only one. Those were the tears on her face as she left in the bus, the reality that she can't live two lives, that she had to let go again of something good, for something better, a life with her new granddaughter and a renewed love for her husband.

He probably wanted to but considered it honourable not to as she had found happiness and was finally settled as a married woman.

I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !

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I think Ishiguro being brought up with East Asian parents (as l was) probably identified with the British sense of keeping the stiff upper lip. In many Asian cultures emotions are not demonstrated as they are in Latin or Western culture and is often suppressed. Revealing too much can be seen as being weak and undignified. I feel with globalisation and the internet, this is something that is gradually changing though.

Spirit and Truth are religious concepts and therefore nebulous at best.

Greg1 McIntosh He’s nearly at the state pension age.

He's 65, but could pass for 45

No one has a prodigious grasp on human emotion... it gets better with age though

Lol, very young? The guy's at a retirement age! He's old if anything.

Greg1 McIntosh He says in the video that he was in his 30’s

I’m in university, and I feel I’m under this oppression. I couldn’t have read this novel at a better time.

"The Shining" leapt immediately to mind as another example of very different but equally great book/ film adaptation.

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I didn't read the book, but watched the movie yesterday, and though I didn't weep, I felt somewhat upset because Stevens' pride and shyness(which I can relate to) granted him decades of celibacy...

I was reading it out loud, but when getting to the end I couldn't proceed. 🤣😂 too poignant

I think the whole point of the book is that it's ok to cry like a little bitch.

I just watched the movie and I felt so heartbroken at the end. Now I can’t get the characters out of my head so I started reading the book.

@@melissaholman2466 Oh the movie has nothing on the book feelsy-wise, good luck surviving it.

Argent Beard Not unreliable in the traditional sense. He tells you what he saw, what he did not, and he never lies. What he takes from it is where he veers off - so starkly it’s easy for the reader to follow. All they have to do is draw the opposite conclusion to Stevens.

What is this darker secret?

Spy?

Because asking questions is what interviewers do.

No. But thanks for asking

well said. my conscience was pricked but my skin was not. it troubled me deeply how cheaply some were sold. However, we do now seem to be leaving the trees in the distance and more people are beginning to see the forest.

@@niallkennedy23 Anti vaxxers. So proud, so deluded.

Lawn Mower Ishiguro didn’t write The Tree of Life.

Lmao

I like apples, but tuna fish cans are difficult to open

What hunchback? Who do you think he is, Quasimodo or Richard III?

It’s the opposite.

JP VOGEL Because he isn’t a ‘foreigner.’

JP Vogel, I disagree, it’s a stereotype, we fit somewhere if we are lucky

His book was more English than English.

@@kelman727 no, hé is your typical British face and character

e d If you’d read what you were replying to you may have seen why your post was pointless.

It's relevance is to humanity, which is timeless.

Reread it when you’re older, and have realized that you too are a butler

You don’t know very much about either England or Ishiguro, one assumes.

@@jonharrison9222 yes, one does assume old boy.

I don't care what Anthony Hopkins looked like or how he stood. He put in one of the greatest and most nuanced performances in film history in The Remains of the Day, and he made the part genuine and believable on an emotional level with layers and depth. He said so much with just minor changes in his expression. This was the best performance of his distinguished career, as Miss Kenton was the best of Emma Thompson's career.

@@JRRLewis Completely agree....very well said. Incredible ensemble/team in front and behind the cameras as well.

What the hell even is this take...

Because you fancy Huge Grunt! Lol

Hopkins is great actor. But he is just not right for this role, not because of his hunchback etc but because the look in his eyes. That look is too sharp, too knowing and too shrewd to play Mr Stevens. Having read the book, I pictured in my mind Mr Stevens as tragically earnest, eager to serve and possess none of the shrewdness which Hopkins cannot help showing. I mean, if only he was nearly as sharp! Then we wouldnt have a story.